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5,483,734 | 5,483,003 | 1 | 2 | 5,481,954 | train | <story><title>The OAuth Bible</title><url>https://github.com/Mashape/mashape-oauth/blob/master/FLOWS.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nijiko</author><text>Hello! I am the author of this, never expected to see it here! I was extremely surprised when my friend mentioned it was on here and Hacker News wouldn't let me comment.<p>If anyone has questions or any feedback let me know as it is a work in progress! Thank you for all the kind words!</text></comment> | <story><title>The OAuth Bible</title><url>https://github.com/Mashape/mashape-oauth/blob/master/FLOWS.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WALoeIII</author><text>This is excellent, especially the diagrams.<p>I'd love to see a explanation of the security implications of each flow. As I understand it the "most secure" flow is OAuth 1.0a (three-legged), but its a total pain so it is mostly avoided. OAuth 2.0 is dramatically simpler, but there are bespoke additions (Google and Facebook come to mind) that you have to handle, typically in the name of security. I am ignorant of all the implications and would like a guide.</text></comment> |
34,607,365 | 34,606,126 | 1 | 3 | 34,589,454 | train | <story><title>New mathematical model shows how the body regulates potassium</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-01-mathematical-body-potassium.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nealabq</author><text>I once consumed a couple of grams of NU-Salt (potassium chloride) in an effort to lower blood pressure. Indeed it works. Also lowers heart rate. And makes your face numb. Use it lightly on food otherwise everything taste metallic.<p>This wasn&#x27;t a very wise experiment -- I don&#x27;t recommend it. Injected, KCl can kill you (and is used for executions). I don&#x27;t know the fatal oral dose, but it&#x27;s so orally unpleasant you&#x27;d probably be vomiting before getting there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikewarot</author><text>I bought a shaker of Nu-Salt after the previous mention of potassium a month ago[1]<p>I use it instead of table salt to season food. (But still use conventional salt in cooking). The first time I used a bit too much, and everything tasted... off. Since then I&#x27;ve backed off, and it&#x27;s ok.<p>I&#x27;m shocked at how much weight I&#x27;ve lost (approximately 20 pounds, but I am morbidly obese)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34072801" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34072801</a></text></comment> | <story><title>New mathematical model shows how the body regulates potassium</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-01-mathematical-body-potassium.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nealabq</author><text>I once consumed a couple of grams of NU-Salt (potassium chloride) in an effort to lower blood pressure. Indeed it works. Also lowers heart rate. And makes your face numb. Use it lightly on food otherwise everything taste metallic.<p>This wasn&#x27;t a very wise experiment -- I don&#x27;t recommend it. Injected, KCl can kill you (and is used for executions). I don&#x27;t know the fatal oral dose, but it&#x27;s so orally unpleasant you&#x27;d probably be vomiting before getting there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fbdab103</author><text>Oral LD50 is ~2.6g&#x2F;kg, for a fatal dose on the order of 180 grams. Which, indeed, sounds impossible to consume without retching out your guts.</text></comment> |
27,792,233 | 27,792,297 | 1 | 3 | 27,791,539 | train | <story><title>Against SQL</title><url>https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slx26</author><text>I think the problem of this essay is that it&#x27;s overly technical: only those versed well enough in SQL will really care to read the whole thing, and if they are already at that level, either they accepted that &quot;SQL will get the job done in the end&quot;, or they learned to live along it and now even kinda embrace it, and are happy to write about how the examples are very poor and dismiss the critique based on that, when the essay kinda explains it main point pretty well:<p>&gt;&gt; The core message [...] is that there is potentially a huge amount of value to be unlocked by replacing SQL<p>To me, a lot of people defends SQL saying that &quot;perfect is the enemy of good&quot; and that SQL simply works. Not the favourite of anyone, but everyone kinda accepts it.<p>And yeah, it&#x27;s true. People use SQL because it&#x27;s good enough, and trying to reinvent the wheel would take more work (individually speaking) than just dealing with SQL as it is right now. For large organizations where the effort could be justified, all your engineers already know SQL anyway, so it&#x27;s not so great either.<p>But for something so relevant as relational databases, perfect is not the enemy of good. <i>We do deserve better</i>. We generally agree that SQL has many pitfalls, it&#x27;s not great for any kind of user (for non-technical users, a visual programming language would work well here, more like what Airtable does, closing the bridge between spreadsheet and hardcore database, and for technical users, it does feel unwieldy and quirky). We should be more open to at least <i>consider</i> critiques and proposals for better. We might find out that people, from time to time, are making some good points.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>I think I&#x27;m experienced enough to understand the article, and I agree. I&#x27;ve written multiple optimizing SQL generators (altering generated SQL to access better plans), and rewritten hundreds of queries for better performance, which involves trying many semantically identical rewrites of the same query.<p>I agree with Jamie. I think SQL is irritatingly non-composable, many operations require gymnastics to express, and I&#x27;d like a more expressive and regular language to write queries in.<p>I also suspect that such a language would be harder to optimize, and might be more practical to implement if it was less declarative and closer to the plan.<p>I also think that as you scale up, offloading computation to the database is a false economy. It&#x27;s closer to the data, but the database itself is a bottleneck. As you scale, you want to limit the complexity of your queries. But this is actually an argument for things like Materialize, i.e. making copies of the data elsewhere that bake in some of the computation ahead of time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Against SQL</title><url>https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slx26</author><text>I think the problem of this essay is that it&#x27;s overly technical: only those versed well enough in SQL will really care to read the whole thing, and if they are already at that level, either they accepted that &quot;SQL will get the job done in the end&quot;, or they learned to live along it and now even kinda embrace it, and are happy to write about how the examples are very poor and dismiss the critique based on that, when the essay kinda explains it main point pretty well:<p>&gt;&gt; The core message [...] is that there is potentially a huge amount of value to be unlocked by replacing SQL<p>To me, a lot of people defends SQL saying that &quot;perfect is the enemy of good&quot; and that SQL simply works. Not the favourite of anyone, but everyone kinda accepts it.<p>And yeah, it&#x27;s true. People use SQL because it&#x27;s good enough, and trying to reinvent the wheel would take more work (individually speaking) than just dealing with SQL as it is right now. For large organizations where the effort could be justified, all your engineers already know SQL anyway, so it&#x27;s not so great either.<p>But for something so relevant as relational databases, perfect is not the enemy of good. <i>We do deserve better</i>. We generally agree that SQL has many pitfalls, it&#x27;s not great for any kind of user (for non-technical users, a visual programming language would work well here, more like what Airtable does, closing the bridge between spreadsheet and hardcore database, and for technical users, it does feel unwieldy and quirky). We should be more open to at least <i>consider</i> critiques and proposals for better. We might find out that people, from time to time, are making some good points.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ako</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of talk about what is wrong with SQL, but i haven&#x27;t seen something yet that is actually better than SQL for most use cases.<p>Stop fighting SQL so much, and just focus on bringing a better solution. If potential users see it has significant benefits they&#x27;ll start using it.</text></comment> |
29,278,016 | 29,277,972 | 1 | 3 | 29,277,260 | train | <story><title>Swedish study finds discrimination against men in female-dominated occupations</title><url>https://www.psypost.org/2021/05/swedish-study-suggests-hiring-discrimination-is-primarily-a-problem-for-men-in-female-dominated-occupations-60699</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dagw</author><text>You can take a leadership role, but you cannot take a leadership position. That has to be given to you.</text></item><item><author>daenz</author><text>I do get your point, but leadership is sometimes unique in that it requires an individual to <i>take</i> the role.</text></item><item><author>dagw</author><text>Or at least men tend to _be given_ more leadership responsibilities.</text></item><item><author>thendrill</author><text>Are you saying that men tend to take more leadership responsibilities?</text></item><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>“that, at least in Sweden and the occupations we study, hiring discrimination in entry level jobs is primarily a problem for men in female-dominated occupations,”<p>That&#x27;s interesting. I work in a female-dominated occupation (libraries), but, it&#x27;s only female dominated at the lower levels. Historically, at least, directors&#x2F;managers and the upper level folks tended to be men, and those are of course the only jobs that pay very well. So while there&#x27;s waaay more female librarians, there&#x27;s way more male library directors. I think that&#x27;s been slowly changing recently. I don&#x27;t see that they look at libraries in this study, nor do they mention managers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn8788</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever seen a well functioning organization that gives a leadership position to someone who hasn&#x27;t already demonstrated leadership qualities by proactively taking on a leadership role.</text></comment> | <story><title>Swedish study finds discrimination against men in female-dominated occupations</title><url>https://www.psypost.org/2021/05/swedish-study-suggests-hiring-discrimination-is-primarily-a-problem-for-men-in-female-dominated-occupations-60699</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dagw</author><text>You can take a leadership role, but you cannot take a leadership position. That has to be given to you.</text></item><item><author>daenz</author><text>I do get your point, but leadership is sometimes unique in that it requires an individual to <i>take</i> the role.</text></item><item><author>dagw</author><text>Or at least men tend to _be given_ more leadership responsibilities.</text></item><item><author>thendrill</author><text>Are you saying that men tend to take more leadership responsibilities?</text></item><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>“that, at least in Sweden and the occupations we study, hiring discrimination in entry level jobs is primarily a problem for men in female-dominated occupations,”<p>That&#x27;s interesting. I work in a female-dominated occupation (libraries), but, it&#x27;s only female dominated at the lower levels. Historically, at least, directors&#x2F;managers and the upper level folks tended to be men, and those are of course the only jobs that pay very well. So while there&#x27;s waaay more female librarians, there&#x27;s way more male library directors. I think that&#x27;s been slowly changing recently. I don&#x27;t see that they look at libraries in this study, nor do they mention managers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daenz</author><text>True, but from my experience, taking the role can lead to a position because it demonstrates qualities in a leader.</text></comment> |
11,448,657 | 11,447,965 | 1 | 3 | 11,444,830 | train | <story><title>MathML is a failed web standard</title><url>https://www.peterkrautzberger.org/0186/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dginev</author><text>I don&#x27;t know how many of the people lamenting MathML ever came to exist are active math-on-the-web developers. I for one am dealing with third-party math equations on a daily basis and can only dream of the wonder of ubiquitous MathML support in all major browsers.<p>The details as to why are here:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prodg.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;mathml_please&#x2F;2015-09-16&#x2F;MathML%20on%20the%20Web%20%E2%80%93%20Please" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prodg.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;mathml_please&#x2F;2015-09-16&#x2F;MathML%20on%2...</a>!<p>As things stand, math handling on the web is inconvenient at best and a nightmare at worst.<p>Some quick points about the comments here:<p>- MathML as a spec is akin to SVG, it&#x27;s meant for the browser&#x2F;machine first, and not for direct human consumption. You don&#x27;t read&#x2F;write SVG by hand, and neither you should MathML.<p>- Calling MathML a &quot;failed web standard&quot; is fine by me, as long as you continue the remark with &quot;the Chrome and IE browsers have failed mathematicians&quot; and &quot;the math-on-the-web developers have failed as a community&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalist</author><text>All you&#x27;ve really written here is that you want a spec and support for properly displaying math content in the browser, but then you jump to happily taking MathML because it already exists in some places. None of that addresses the critiques of MathML as a bad standard, one that fits poorly with the layout and display of the rest of the web.<p>The author here is saying we want a spec and support for properly displaying math content in the browser, so let&#x27;s make a sane spec that works with the way the web works, not as if it&#x27;s in an embedded foreign object viewer.<p>SVG is actually a great parallel In many instances it <i>is</i> easy to write by hand, until you go to any level of moderate complexity and hit the brick wall of SVG&#x27;s usability. And that&#x27;s when you wish it had a sane design, because there are a few aspects that are quite close.</text></comment> | <story><title>MathML is a failed web standard</title><url>https://www.peterkrautzberger.org/0186/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dginev</author><text>I don&#x27;t know how many of the people lamenting MathML ever came to exist are active math-on-the-web developers. I for one am dealing with third-party math equations on a daily basis and can only dream of the wonder of ubiquitous MathML support in all major browsers.<p>The details as to why are here:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prodg.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;mathml_please&#x2F;2015-09-16&#x2F;MathML%20on%20the%20Web%20%E2%80%93%20Please" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prodg.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;mathml_please&#x2F;2015-09-16&#x2F;MathML%20on%2...</a>!<p>As things stand, math handling on the web is inconvenient at best and a nightmare at worst.<p>Some quick points about the comments here:<p>- MathML as a spec is akin to SVG, it&#x27;s meant for the browser&#x2F;machine first, and not for direct human consumption. You don&#x27;t read&#x2F;write SVG by hand, and neither you should MathML.<p>- Calling MathML a &quot;failed web standard&quot; is fine by me, as long as you continue the remark with &quot;the Chrome and IE browsers have failed mathematicians&quot; and &quot;the math-on-the-web developers have failed as a community&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>Do you think other kinds of content should be included in the web spec too? So, special tags for musical notation, special tags for all forms of maps and geographic, geological features, tags to represent chemical structures, tags for all major forms of engineering notation, etc?<p>To me, it&#x27;s not that I don&#x27;t think there is a use case for MathML, it&#x27;s that it&#x27;s too content-specific to make sense at the browser level.<p>The only way it makes sense in my head is if I think of math as a language that browsers should support on the basis of internationalization. That makes some sense to me, but if that&#x27;s the idea then OP is right they should use standard notation (as we do for every other language) and not XML, and it shouldn&#x27;t be styleable by CSS at all.</text></comment> |
15,796,465 | 15,796,480 | 1 | 2 | 15,796,045 | train | <story><title>What to Worry About in This Surreal Bull Market</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-28/what-to-worry-about-in-this-surreal-bull-market</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aedron</author><text>A bubble in slow motion, someone called the present economic environment. I think it&#x27;s an apt description. Extreme &quot;quantitative easing&quot; (I refuse to take fed speak seriously) has only taken effect very, very slowly. Why? Because all it really was was recapitalizing banks which had enormous gaping holes on their balance sheets after 2008. They have been able to fill the tanks now, getting money hot off the presses for a song for a decade, and finally it has started to trickle into &quot;the real economy&quot; and actually lead to commercial and industrial growth.<p>Another dampening factor has been the regulations introduced after 2008 like S̶a̶r̶b̶a̶n̶e̶s̶-̶O̶x̶l̶e̶y̶ Dodd-Frank, the moratorium on IPOs has definitely helped to slow things down.<p>Now things are moving again, trouble is, history has shown time and time again that monetary policy is a ketchup bottle, once it starts having effect it is already too late to moderate it. That&#x27;s why we have bubbles - suddenly there is too much money slushing around chasing finite resources, markets become crazy and regulators have to slam the brakes hard (in combination with banks predictably finding ways to overleverage, legally or not). Which leads to my prediction: Markets are still not crazy enough. Crazy, but not enough to look like the part where it all blows up. So I am betting on at least six months more of &quot;growth&quot; (i.e. inflation) before the inevitable crash.</text></comment> | <story><title>What to Worry About in This Surreal Bull Market</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-28/what-to-worry-about-in-this-surreal-bull-market</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mathgeek</author><text>The next market recession will happen the same as the previous ones: some lucky people will predict it, most won&#x27;t, and everyone will in hindsight declare how obvious the signs were.<p>The best strategy is still to diversify your investments, keep enough emergency assets to ride the wave, and not worry about it.</text></comment> |
2,683,605 | 2,683,668 | 1 | 2 | 2,683,361 | train | <story><title>Loopt Tries a Groupon in Reverse</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/06/22/app-watch-loopt-tries-a-groupon-in-reverse/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nhashem</author><text>While it's a theoretically cool concept, the actual implementation doesn't appeal that much to me as a consumer and I'm not sure it'll really appeal to businesses. Would I want to get $20 at a nearby pizza place for $10? Sure. But how useful is it if I have to wait an indeterminate amount of time (if ever) to get the deal? I'm likely to only suggest local businesses that I frequent a lot anyway, and how useful is it to them to offer discounts to mostly regularly paying customers?<p>That being said, I do think this is moving the industry in a direction for variable prices for local businesses. Imagine a real-time feedback loop where it's 4pm and you could ask your local pizza place for a discount and they could instantly reply whether they granted it or not. It's a lull before dinner and they have some pizzas from lunch they've just kept warming up, so they grant you the discount. Or actually a kids' soccer team shows up and takes over the place so they decline the discount.<p>This doesn't work so well with resellers (which is pretty much any restaurant), but it could definitely work with service businesses that have to pay their staff whether clients show up or not. We'll see if companies like Loopt have this vision in mind and whether they can make it possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Loopt Tries a Groupon in Reverse</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/06/22/app-watch-loopt-tries-a-groupon-in-reverse/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>That seems strictly inferior to Groupon: it cannibalizes existing customers by design, but to get there, you need to nondeterministicly charge people's credit cards. So it is a reward card, with the restaurant paying 50% of reward values to, um, not reward their customers except weeks after the fact some of the time.</text></comment> |
36,700,895 | 36,700,162 | 1 | 3 | 36,699,738 | train | <story><title>MuseScore 4.1 is now available</title><url>https://musescore.org/en/4.1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bijection</author><text>For the intrepid, especially those annoyed with the purported input-sluggishness of musescore et al, an interesting text-based alternative is LilyPond <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lilypond.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lilypond.org&#x2F;</a><p>My dad wrote an opera using LilyPond in vim, though I believe these days he&#x27;s actually doing more with supercollider, which skips sheetmusic and goes right to sounds: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supercollider.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supercollider.github.io&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>MuseScore 4.1 is now available</title><url>https://musescore.org/en/4.1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jchw</author><text>Out of curiosity, what ever happened to all of the drama with MuseScore, locking downloads behind a subscription, the Audacity acquisition + telemetry debacle? It looks like Tenacity still exists in some form, though it does not appear like there is a ton of significant activity on it in the last month or so.<p>Have things cooled down now?</text></comment> |
4,410,446 | 4,410,460 | 1 | 2 | 4,409,960 | train | <story><title>Peter Thiel Sells Majority Of His Facebook Shares In Deal Planned Pre-IPO</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/20/peter-thiel-sells-majority-of-his-facebook-shares/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cfront</author><text>Is this some sort of extreme cognitive dissonance?<p>Why can't people just accept that Facebook is a fad?<p>It does not mean the world is going to end. It's a fad, not a solid company. We went through this before 12 years ago. Eventually the market figures it out. Move on. That's what Thiel is doing.<p>More fads are around the corner. Investors will keep falling for the same old tricks.<p>Gates and Ellison are very poor comparisons. Their software was not web-based (=ad-based), their main market was the enterprise and they went to great lengths to create long-term customer lock-in. They began in a different era, and are nothing like Facebook, which is a photo-sharing website that relies on display ads and game-playing "whales" to make money.</text></item><item><author>qq66</author><text>Would you expect him to do anything else? Invert the question: if you had $500 million cash, would you spend it all on Facebook stock? Or Google stock? Or any one stock?<p>Even for company insiders who really believe in the future of their company, it isn't prudent to hold more than a small fraction of a billion-dollar fortune in one stock, from a purely rational perspective. Of course, the public expects irrationally enthusiastic behavior from founders, which is the only thing that leads to the gigantic fortunes amassed by the Gates/Ellisons of the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeryan</author><text><i>It's fad, not a solid company.</i><p>I'm pretty bearish on Facebook's stock, but there's nothing here to indicate its just a fad. This is a company with over a billion dollars in revenues per quarter with a pretty consistent 15-25% profit margin.<p>Is it the next Google? Its looking more and more like its not, but that doesn't mean its going to be the next Yahoo! either.</text></comment> | <story><title>Peter Thiel Sells Majority Of His Facebook Shares In Deal Planned Pre-IPO</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/20/peter-thiel-sells-majority-of-his-facebook-shares/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cfront</author><text>Is this some sort of extreme cognitive dissonance?<p>Why can't people just accept that Facebook is a fad?<p>It does not mean the world is going to end. It's a fad, not a solid company. We went through this before 12 years ago. Eventually the market figures it out. Move on. That's what Thiel is doing.<p>More fads are around the corner. Investors will keep falling for the same old tricks.<p>Gates and Ellison are very poor comparisons. Their software was not web-based (=ad-based), their main market was the enterprise and they went to great lengths to create long-term customer lock-in. They began in a different era, and are nothing like Facebook, which is a photo-sharing website that relies on display ads and game-playing "whales" to make money.</text></item><item><author>qq66</author><text>Would you expect him to do anything else? Invert the question: if you had $500 million cash, would you spend it all on Facebook stock? Or Google stock? Or any one stock?<p>Even for company insiders who really believe in the future of their company, it isn't prudent to hold more than a small fraction of a billion-dollar fortune in one stock, from a purely rational perspective. Of course, the public expects irrationally enthusiastic behavior from founders, which is the only thing that leads to the gigantic fortunes amassed by the Gates/Ellisons of the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qq66</author><text>Not sure how I can explain it any further than I already did, but diversification is smart regardless of what company you've founded.<p>Even if you've created a company which cures cancer, educates the world's children, and solves global poverty at a 40% profit margin, once you have 100% of your multi-billion dollar fortune tied up in it, it's time to diversify.</text></comment> |
585,219 | 585,176 | 1 | 2 | 585,082 | train | <story><title>6 Line EventMachine Bugfix = 2x faster GC, 13x requests/sec</title><url>http://timetobleed.com/6-line-eventmachine-bugfix-2x-faster-gc-1300-requestssec/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>This is why I hate garbage collection -- it tends to break horribly as soon as someone does anything unexpected. Using 800 kB of stack is an incredibly dumb thing to do (not as bad on a 64-bit system as it is on a 32-bit system, admittedly), but it still shouldn't cause a huge drop in performance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>This strikes me a lot like noting "Michael Jordan should never miss free throws. Heck, I can make free throws. Well, guess you can't trust NBA players at basketball."<p>All programmers cause memory management issues, even the folks who write garbage collectors. Those folks have typically forgotten more about memory management than you or I will ever know. If you do not have a compelling reason to believe that you will be better than them quite literally all of the time, then you might want to learn to love the GC.<p>(See also: trying to out-optimize both gcc and the processor pipelining which you don't really understand anyhow, reimplementing core features of your web stack to "do them right this time", etc etc.)</text></comment> | <story><title>6 Line EventMachine Bugfix = 2x faster GC, 13x requests/sec</title><url>http://timetobleed.com/6-line-eventmachine-bugfix-2x-faster-gc-1300-requestssec/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>This is why I hate garbage collection -- it tends to break horribly as soon as someone does anything unexpected. Using 800 kB of stack is an incredibly dumb thing to do (not as bad on a 64-bit system as it is on a 32-bit system, admittedly), but it still shouldn't cause a huge drop in performance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>briansmith</author><text>"It tends to break horribly as soon as someone does anything unexpected" is usually the argument used against <i>manual</i> memory management.</text></comment> |
39,349,329 | 39,348,197 | 1 | 2 | 39,346,870 | train | <story><title>I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ap1345/i_applied_for_a_software_role_at_fedex_and_was/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billy99k</author><text>I once had a SW interview with a job that had a 2-hour long personality test. No tech questions. Just random questions to test my personality. It started out simple, like &#x27;what was the last book you read&#x27; to more in-depth situations that had nothing to do with the job.<p>The manager interviewing me (who admit he basically just started managing a month prior) told me he just read a &#x27;great book on management&#x27; and wanted to &#x27;try this out&#x27;. I passed the first interview, but the second was going to be a 5-hour remote codeshare&#x2F;whiteboard interview with the team. I declined the second interview.<p>I ended up choosing the job that had no whiteboard interview or personality test. It was just a simple conversation with the tech lead about my previous experience and if I had the experience to work on their current system.<p>It was the best job I ever had and they are still my client almost 5 years later.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doublebind</author><text>Two years ago, I had a similar experience with Chainlink. I underwent hours of interviews and completed an extensive work assignment, only to be offered the job _after a personality test_.
Simultaneously, I interviewed at a startup. There, I spent about an hour discussing my experience and providing feedback on their current system with the person who would become my manager.<p>I chose the startup, and it has been the best job decision I&#x27;ve ever made.<p>Personality tests can disclose a lot of personal information. It&#x27;s unclear where this data might end up or who might have access to it. I detest this practice and consider it a major red flag.<p>(edit: typos)</text></comment> | <story><title>I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ap1345/i_applied_for_a_software_role_at_fedex_and_was/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billy99k</author><text>I once had a SW interview with a job that had a 2-hour long personality test. No tech questions. Just random questions to test my personality. It started out simple, like &#x27;what was the last book you read&#x27; to more in-depth situations that had nothing to do with the job.<p>The manager interviewing me (who admit he basically just started managing a month prior) told me he just read a &#x27;great book on management&#x27; and wanted to &#x27;try this out&#x27;. I passed the first interview, but the second was going to be a 5-hour remote codeshare&#x2F;whiteboard interview with the team. I declined the second interview.<p>I ended up choosing the job that had no whiteboard interview or personality test. It was just a simple conversation with the tech lead about my previous experience and if I had the experience to work on their current system.<p>It was the best job I ever had and they are still my client almost 5 years later.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awo34oaw4u</author><text>I got asked &quot;what was the last book you read&quot; in a SW startup interview once. I told them and then the interviewers started arguing amongst themselves about whether or not they liked the book, based on what I had told them about it, instead of asking me what I thought about it and what I learned from it. That was one of about thirty red flags. I left without completing the interview.</text></comment> |
18,052,349 | 18,051,565 | 1 | 3 | 18,050,585 | train | <story><title>Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/machine-learning-confronts-the-elephant-in-the-room-20180920/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Is this what softmax is? Simply dividing a vector by sum of its components? If so, then how does it deserve a <i>name</i>, not to mention a long Wikipedia page full of formulas?</text></item><item><author>skierscott</author><text>&gt; a low confidence score<p>Neural nets should return a low confidence score. But, the popular approach (described below) ignores that. Neural nets ignore confidence because of a technique called softmax [1].<p>This happens as the final operation of a neural net, and is required for training.<p>Softmax is a tool to make an array of positive numbers look like a probability distribution:<p><pre><code> out = x &#x2F; x.sum()
</code></pre>
x[i] is a class prediction, but x.sum() != 1. Say if the network was uncertain, x[cat, dog] = [0.03, 0.01]. These are small values that do not imply great confidence (the network was trained on vectors with out.sum() = 1. The network would predict “dog” using softmax because out[dog] = 0.75 &gt; 0.25 = out[cat].<p>But then in inference&#x2F;prediction, the confidence is ignored. What if x.sum() is small? That would imply that the network is uncertain.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Softmax_function" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Softmax_function</a></text></item><item><author>hydrox24</author><text>I know very little about machine vision, so forgive the naïvete of this question:<p>&gt; an ability humans have that AI lacks: the ability to understand when a scene is confusing and thus go back for a second glance.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t the machine return a low confidence score when a scene is confusing? If not, why is this difficult to get around?<p>If so, why can&#x27;t we just call this a computation difficulty problem, simply requiring a way to go back and spend more effort later when required? A problem like this would simply require better computers, and patience.<p>In other words, Is this problem as deeply rooted as the article suggests? Or is it simply a problem with the popular approach to machine vision?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CodesInChaos</author><text>Softmax has two components:<p>1. Transform the components to e^x. This allows the neural network to work with logarithmic probabilities, instead of ordinary probabilities. This turns the common operation of multiplying probabilities into addition, which is far more natural for the linear algebra based structure of neural networks.<p>2. Normalize their sum to 1, since that&#x27;s the total probability we need.<p>One important consequence of this is that bayes&#x27; theorem is very natural to such a network, since it&#x27;s just multiplication of probabilities normalized by the denominator.<p>The trivial case of a single layer network with softmax activation is equivalent to logistic regression.<p>The special case of two component softmax is equivalent to sigmoid activation, which is thus popular when there are only two classes. In multi class classification softmax is used if the classes are mutually exclusive and component-wise sigmoid is used if they are independent.</text></comment> | <story><title>Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/machine-learning-confronts-the-elephant-in-the-room-20180920/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Is this what softmax is? Simply dividing a vector by sum of its components? If so, then how does it deserve a <i>name</i>, not to mention a long Wikipedia page full of formulas?</text></item><item><author>skierscott</author><text>&gt; a low confidence score<p>Neural nets should return a low confidence score. But, the popular approach (described below) ignores that. Neural nets ignore confidence because of a technique called softmax [1].<p>This happens as the final operation of a neural net, and is required for training.<p>Softmax is a tool to make an array of positive numbers look like a probability distribution:<p><pre><code> out = x &#x2F; x.sum()
</code></pre>
x[i] is a class prediction, but x.sum() != 1. Say if the network was uncertain, x[cat, dog] = [0.03, 0.01]. These are small values that do not imply great confidence (the network was trained on vectors with out.sum() = 1. The network would predict “dog” using softmax because out[dog] = 0.75 &gt; 0.25 = out[cat].<p>But then in inference&#x2F;prediction, the confidence is ignored. What if x.sum() is small? That would imply that the network is uncertain.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Softmax_function" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Softmax_function</a></text></item><item><author>hydrox24</author><text>I know very little about machine vision, so forgive the naïvete of this question:<p>&gt; an ability humans have that AI lacks: the ability to understand when a scene is confusing and thus go back for a second glance.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t the machine return a low confidence score when a scene is confusing? If not, why is this difficult to get around?<p>If so, why can&#x27;t we just call this a computation difficulty problem, simply requiring a way to go back and spend more effort later when required? A problem like this would simply require better computers, and patience.<p>In other words, Is this problem as deeply rooted as the article suggests? Or is it simply a problem with the popular approach to machine vision?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tenobrus</author><text>No, it&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s actually e ^ x_i &#x2F; sum(e ^ x_j for x_j in x), which is in fact different. Simply dividing by the sum wouldn&#x27;t work for &quot;squashing to a probability distribution&quot; in a large number of cases.</text></comment> |
39,191,592 | 39,190,867 | 1 | 2 | 39,187,069 | train | <story><title>There's So Much Data Even Spies Are Struggling to Find Secrets</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-29/flood-of-personal-data-makes-life-tough-for-nsa-cia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carlmcqueen</author><text>Anecdotal, and old now: I worked with an ex-NSA agent when I worked at a big bank who worked out of a some of middle east offices in early 2000s. He talked about how new agents often struggle with the size of data (even then) but most good agents work immediately to look at the lack of normal data. Criminals&#x2F;targets have their own signal of data and by filtering traditional data patterns you&#x27;re left with a smaller dataset of the targets you&#x27;re there to find. He used the same patterns to find financial white collar cheaters in bank data.<p>(example: phones off during day, on from 1am-5am then shut off again, no facebook browsing at all, etc.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>creshal</author><text>Germany has been doing this since 1979, when mainframes were used to &quot;find terrorists&quot; – i.e., grab a bunch of companies&#x27; billing data, and filter for people who were &quot;suspicious&quot; by paying their bills in cash and couldn&#x27;t be cross-referenced with other government databases, to find people who were (allegedly, surely) using fake identities.<p>Highly illegal, and put about 18,000 innocent people in the crosshairs of police investigations, but it&#x27;s for The Greater Good, so nobody ever got punished for it, and today it&#x27;s done by police agencies for such world-shaking crimes as speeding tickets, participation in legal demonstrations, and substance abuse.</text></comment> | <story><title>There's So Much Data Even Spies Are Struggling to Find Secrets</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-29/flood-of-personal-data-makes-life-tough-for-nsa-cia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carlmcqueen</author><text>Anecdotal, and old now: I worked with an ex-NSA agent when I worked at a big bank who worked out of a some of middle east offices in early 2000s. He talked about how new agents often struggle with the size of data (even then) but most good agents work immediately to look at the lack of normal data. Criminals&#x2F;targets have their own signal of data and by filtering traditional data patterns you&#x27;re left with a smaller dataset of the targets you&#x27;re there to find. He used the same patterns to find financial white collar cheaters in bank data.<p>(example: phones off during day, on from 1am-5am then shut off again, no facebook browsing at all, etc.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evilduck</author><text>Phones off during the day and on during evening hours would describe the behaviors of NSA employees who aren&#x27;t allowed to carrying phones into their office, are less likely to share or participate with their personal details on social media and is a workforce comprised disproportionately of people with unique quirks like odd sleeping habits.<p>I&#x27;m sure that&#x27;s not lost on them either, but their signals they seek could be finding other intelligence agents and not criminals.</text></comment> |
14,297,543 | 14,295,813 | 1 | 2 | 14,292,651 | train | <story><title>Google’s “Fuchsia” smartphone OS dumps Linux, has a wild new UI</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/googles-fuchsia-smartphone-os-dumps-linux-has-a-wild-new-ui/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>remir</author><text>Right now, if you want to order concert tickets or pay your parking meter, you need specific dedicated apps. The result of this is rows and rows of single-purpose apps &quot;silos&quot; on you phone, having to create an account and entering your credit card for each of them. I think some folks at Google got bored of that and wondered &quot;what&#x27;s next?&quot;.<p>Ultimately, what we want is not the app itself (the silo), but what the app enables (what&#x27;s inside). I don&#x27;t want to download a parking meter app, I just want to pay for parking. I don&#x27;t want to download LiveNation&#x27;s app. I just want to order concert tickets. The system should be able to generate an interface that allows me to do x,y,z depending on context, without having to manage credit cards, adresse and accounts.<p>Chatbots are here, personal assistant, too. You can use your messaging app to order stuff, find answers or send money to your friends. The writing is on the wall: single-purpose apps are not the future and chatbots and AI assistant potentially means less Google search and ad click.<p>So Google figured that re-purposing Android to fit this new paradigm would be an impossible task so they just said fuck it! Let&#x27;s start from scratch with a solid base. Let&#x27;s design a platform that will be everywhere, runs on everything, update silently like Chrome, and is made with AI in mind.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google’s “Fuchsia” smartphone OS dumps Linux, has a wild new UI</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/googles-fuchsia-smartphone-os-dumps-linux-has-a-wild-new-ui/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>niftich</author><text>At first I had a lot of trouble making sense of the UI, but now I think it&#x27;s pretty neat. It&#x27;s essentially the final form of the Material Design idea, where each app is a Card like a physical deck of playing cards, and you get to arrange them by dragging them around, with the important and intentional limitation that they snap into one of a finite number of arrangements. How do you undo a splitscreen or tabbed layout, though?<p>The rest is just mockups at this point, I hope; for example, the control center is pretty rough: presumably the user knows their own location, and when they&#x27;re looking at this screen, they probably don&#x27;t care; the full date is hidden whereas most people forget today&#x27;s date much more often than they forget their own location; there is no obvious way to do auto-brightness, the negative space is in all the wrong places; etc.</text></comment> |
29,316,009 | 29,315,364 | 1 | 3 | 29,305,867 | train | <story><title>The World's Deadliest Thing</title><url>https://www.the-angry-chef.com/blog/the-worlds-deadliest-thing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sho</author><text>&gt; The lethal dose when consumed orally is around 30 billionths of a gram, which if you want a relatable comparison, is about the same as if you cut a single poppy seed into ten thousand equal pieces and ate one of them. It is an amount so tiny, it really doesn’t make sense.<p>That&#x27;s right - it makes no sense. How could such a small amount of anything do enough damage to shut down your entire body? According to wikipedia, it works by &quot;cleaving key proteins required for nerve activation&quot;. Unless there&#x27;s some self-replication mechanism, how does that even work?<p>edit: I went and did the math. At an LD of 30 nanograms, that&#x27;s about 1.2 billion actual molecules of this stuff to die. I guess that&#x27;s enough to shut down a sufficient number of nerves that you just can&#x27;t function anymore.<p>The math: lethal dose &#x2F; per molecule weight (molar mass &#x2F; avogadro)<p>(3.0e-10) &#x2F; (149323.05 &#x2F; 6.0221409e+23) = 1209888406.377984</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>It&#x27;s a protease which matches key neural proteins. The key to recognise is that it&#x27;s reusable: one molecule can keep breaking proteins, and as soon as it does that faster than homeostatic processes can replace them you&#x27;re in trouble.<p>Just how &quot;rm -rf &#x2F;&quot; can destroy your whole system: it&#x27;s a small character but it matches and destroys everything.</text></comment> | <story><title>The World's Deadliest Thing</title><url>https://www.the-angry-chef.com/blog/the-worlds-deadliest-thing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sho</author><text>&gt; The lethal dose when consumed orally is around 30 billionths of a gram, which if you want a relatable comparison, is about the same as if you cut a single poppy seed into ten thousand equal pieces and ate one of them. It is an amount so tiny, it really doesn’t make sense.<p>That&#x27;s right - it makes no sense. How could such a small amount of anything do enough damage to shut down your entire body? According to wikipedia, it works by &quot;cleaving key proteins required for nerve activation&quot;. Unless there&#x27;s some self-replication mechanism, how does that even work?<p>edit: I went and did the math. At an LD of 30 nanograms, that&#x27;s about 1.2 billion actual molecules of this stuff to die. I guess that&#x27;s enough to shut down a sufficient number of nerves that you just can&#x27;t function anymore.<p>The math: lethal dose &#x2F; per molecule weight (molar mass &#x2F; avogadro)<p>(3.0e-10) &#x2F; (149323.05 &#x2F; 6.0221409e+23) = 1209888406.377984</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>Wikipedia says &quot;The estimated human lethal dose of type A toxin is 1.3–2.1 ng&#x2F;kg intravenously or intramuscularly, 10–13 ng&#x2F;kg when inhaled, or 1000 ng&#x2F;kg when taken by mouth.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Botulinum_toxin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Botulinum_toxin</a></text></comment> |
27,269,650 | 27,269,652 | 1 | 2 | 27,267,368 | train | <story><title>Uber's crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat</title><url>https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/uber-app-rewrite-yolo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DevKoala</author><text>&gt; Ariana Huffington joins Uber&#x27;s board around the same time and releases her book on the importance of sleep right around this time, and piles of free copies are available in the office. Yes, sleep is important. So why am I at the office past midnight? Right: the deadline that can not be moved.<p>This feels too familiar. “You have unlimited vacation, just take a week off, but we are not moving that deadline.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>junon</author><text>I was at Uber during this time. Her book was stacked on tables all around the main headquarters offices, free to take.<p>Took a looooong time for them to disappear and I&#x27;m still not convinced more than a handful of people cared.<p>People didn&#x27;t really like her internally. She was good friends with Travis apparently and that&#x27;s about as far as the relationship to the company seemed to go.<p>There was once a time where employees could request a ride with her directly from the app but to be honest the prospect sounded horrifying.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber's crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat</title><url>https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/uber-app-rewrite-yolo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DevKoala</author><text>&gt; Ariana Huffington joins Uber&#x27;s board around the same time and releases her book on the importance of sleep right around this time, and piles of free copies are available in the office. Yes, sleep is important. So why am I at the office past midnight? Right: the deadline that can not be moved.<p>This feels too familiar. “You have unlimited vacation, just take a week off, but we are not moving that deadline.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>president</author><text>To be fair this happens because there are those who are willing to hurt themselves in order to get ahead in their career. We&#x27;ve all had coworkers that send late emails at 2am in the morning or don&#x27;t use up their vacation days because they want to appear as hard working and as loyal to the company. Many of these people have no real skill and sacrificing their free time is the only real edge they have. This is fairly common and observable at your standard big enterprise software corp. Not trying to shift the blame from companies but it does take two to tango.</text></comment> |
15,269,774 | 15,269,680 | 1 | 2 | 15,268,701 | train | <story><title>Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS</title><url>https://ma.ttias.be/chrome-force-dev-domains-https-via-preloaded-hsts/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Hey everyone. I&#x27;m the Tech Lead of Google Registry and I&#x27;m the one behind this (and likely future) additions to the HSTS preload list. I might be able to answer some questions people have.<p>But to pre-emptively answer the most likely question: We see HTTPS everywhere as being fundamental to improving security of the Web. Ideally all websites everywhere would use HTTPS, but there&#x27;s decades of inertia of that not being the case. HSTS is one tool to help nudge things towards an HTTPS everywhere future, which has really only become possible in the last few years thanks to the likes of Let&#x27;s Encrypt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hungerstrike</author><text>I bet you can&#x27;t answer the actual most likely question: What are you (Google) planning on doing with .dev domains anyway?<p>However besides that...just curious: Will Chrome honor a header to disable HSTS for preloaded domains? (e.g. <i>Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=0</i>)? And what is going to happen if I submit my .dev site for removal from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hstspreload.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hstspreload.org&#x2F;</a> ?<p>Also, reading the rules on hstspreload.org, I see the following statement: <i>&quot;Don&#x27;t request inclusion unless you&#x27;re sure that you can support HTTPS for your entire site and all its subdomains the long term&quot;</i><p>Since you cannot actually guarantee that every .dev site will support HTTPS considering the fact that many developers use it on their LAN...don&#x27;t you think you&#x27;re breaking the rules here and possibly causing more problems than solutions?</text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS</title><url>https://ma.ttias.be/chrome-force-dev-domains-https-via-preloaded-hsts/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Hey everyone. I&#x27;m the Tech Lead of Google Registry and I&#x27;m the one behind this (and likely future) additions to the HSTS preload list. I might be able to answer some questions people have.<p>But to pre-emptively answer the most likely question: We see HTTPS everywhere as being fundamental to improving security of the Web. Ideally all websites everywhere would use HTTPS, but there&#x27;s decades of inertia of that not being the case. HSTS is one tool to help nudge things towards an HTTPS everywhere future, which has really only become possible in the last few years thanks to the likes of Let&#x27;s Encrypt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panic</author><text>One of greatest things about the Web is how easy it is to write HTTP clients and servers. I see why HTTPS everywhere would be helpful, but I also think it would be a shame to lose this simplicity. Has there been any thought put toward simpler alternatives to HTTP+TLS?</text></comment> |
38,410,696 | 38,410,579 | 1 | 3 | 38,409,903 | train | <story><title>Bandcamp support is faltering – maybe you should download your music now</title><url>https://linuximpact.com/bandcamp-support-is-faltering-download-your-music-now/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Syonyk</author><text>Buy a vinyl album from artists who sell such things, which will get them far more, per album sold, than just about anything else. Your ability to play vinyl is irrelevant here, and all I&#x27;ll ask is that you store it reasonably (upright, in a cool place, sealed if you&#x27;re not going to play it) for future use, since they last &quot;about forever&quot; when well taken care of.<p>Then obtain the music in some lossless form. FLAC download from the usual sources, used CD on eBay into the ripper, etc.<p>Though I&#x27;ve also debated just starting to mail checks in envelopes to artists I want to directly support.<p>It&#x27;s certainly more annoying than something like BandCamp. But given how &quot;literally everything useful on the internet&quot; either turns into a behavioral surplus vampire or dies (gets killed off), I don&#x27;t have any better ideas either.</text></item><item><author>Lacerda69</author><text>I could not agree more.
If Bandcamp actually implodes I would have no idea where to buy music.
I want to buy directly fron the artists; everything else feels tainted.<p>Is there any alternative?</text></item><item><author>moogly</author><text>This is so depressing. Bandcamp was the last bastion of what once made the Internet great. I could do without everything else, really. It&#x27;s all greed now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DragonStrength</author><text>The issue of course is Bandcamp is the method most artists use to sell vinyl to fans who can’t make it to their live shows. I assume the pandemic led many to support their favorite artists through Bandcamp, but Bandcamp planned for a new reality that was really just pandemic-induced. The issue is Bandcamp enables smaller artists to sell like bigger artists and anything like your “mail a check” solution is so far from the kind of support Bandcamp could provide. I’m more interested in thinking about what “sustainable business model Bandcamp is” than going back to 1990s music industry.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bandcamp support is faltering – maybe you should download your music now</title><url>https://linuximpact.com/bandcamp-support-is-faltering-download-your-music-now/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Syonyk</author><text>Buy a vinyl album from artists who sell such things, which will get them far more, per album sold, than just about anything else. Your ability to play vinyl is irrelevant here, and all I&#x27;ll ask is that you store it reasonably (upright, in a cool place, sealed if you&#x27;re not going to play it) for future use, since they last &quot;about forever&quot; when well taken care of.<p>Then obtain the music in some lossless form. FLAC download from the usual sources, used CD on eBay into the ripper, etc.<p>Though I&#x27;ve also debated just starting to mail checks in envelopes to artists I want to directly support.<p>It&#x27;s certainly more annoying than something like BandCamp. But given how &quot;literally everything useful on the internet&quot; either turns into a behavioral surplus vampire or dies (gets killed off), I don&#x27;t have any better ideas either.</text></item><item><author>Lacerda69</author><text>I could not agree more.
If Bandcamp actually implodes I would have no idea where to buy music.
I want to buy directly fron the artists; everything else feels tainted.<p>Is there any alternative?</text></item><item><author>moogly</author><text>This is so depressing. Bandcamp was the last bastion of what once made the Internet great. I could do without everything else, really. It&#x27;s all greed now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lifeformed</author><text>Vinyl won&#x27;t get the most to the artist per dollar spent though. Most of the revenue from vinyl goes to people involved in the production and distribution of the physical record.</text></comment> |
399,394 | 399,153 | 1 | 2 | 398,913 | train | <story><title>Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs </title><url>http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/15/10-useful-techniques-to-improve-your-user-interface-designs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derefr</author><text>But almost no one really follows this advice to its core. Imagine an operating system designed this way: you could quit Photoshop, then "undo" the quit, and all your windows would reopen without anything have to re-load from disk (because it wasn't really unloaded yet to begin with.) You could "rm -rf /" and then press Ctrl-Z in your shell. You could send an email, and then pull it back from the server (or all the way from the other person's inbox), as long as they both had the same system installed.<p>If the entire world worked this way, you could even wire $5000 to a Nigerian scammer, then pull it back out, <i>undoing the purchase of anything they spent it on in the process</i>. Of course, cash would have to be replaced with a reversible commodity (credit chips that really just referenced a row in a central, though distributed, table) so money could flow back into your pocket without anyone having to hand you anything.<p>Taken even further, to the point where you can take out a hit on someone and then press undo <i>after the person is dead</i>, this begins to sound like the start of a good Science Fiction. "The Reversible Society", perhaps.</text></item><item><author>edw519</author><text>Nice little writeup that skims the surface of "User Interface Designs".<p>Problem is that when you decouple interface design from system design, that's all you can do: skim the surface.<p>#10 provides the perfect example: how to label your dialog boxes.<p>Once you take a larger, more organic view, you reach a much simpler conclusion: don't have dialog boxes. Just do it and provide an Undo, and leave the user alone. Millions will thank you.<p>An outcome you can only reach by looking at the <i>whole</i> system, not just the way it looks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daleharvey</author><text>it isnt about "to the core", there are obviously non associative things that should be warned as such, but seeing as you use photoshop as an example<p>edit a photoshop file, quit, it will warn you to save changes blah blah, it is annoying, but also stops you deleting stuff, load it again, history is lost<p>Use lightroom, another adobe product for editing photos, edit a photo, quit, no dialog, its already saved, open the file again, and the history is preserved<p>its a much nicer experience in a lot of situations</text></comment> | <story><title>Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs </title><url>http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/15/10-useful-techniques-to-improve-your-user-interface-designs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derefr</author><text>But almost no one really follows this advice to its core. Imagine an operating system designed this way: you could quit Photoshop, then "undo" the quit, and all your windows would reopen without anything have to re-load from disk (because it wasn't really unloaded yet to begin with.) You could "rm -rf /" and then press Ctrl-Z in your shell. You could send an email, and then pull it back from the server (or all the way from the other person's inbox), as long as they both had the same system installed.<p>If the entire world worked this way, you could even wire $5000 to a Nigerian scammer, then pull it back out, <i>undoing the purchase of anything they spent it on in the process</i>. Of course, cash would have to be replaced with a reversible commodity (credit chips that really just referenced a row in a central, though distributed, table) so money could flow back into your pocket without anyone having to hand you anything.<p>Taken even further, to the point where you can take out a hit on someone and then press undo <i>after the person is dead</i>, this begins to sound like the start of a good Science Fiction. "The Reversible Society", perhaps.</text></item><item><author>edw519</author><text>Nice little writeup that skims the surface of "User Interface Designs".<p>Problem is that when you decouple interface design from system design, that's all you can do: skim the surface.<p>#10 provides the perfect example: how to label your dialog boxes.<p>Once you take a larger, more organic view, you reach a much simpler conclusion: don't have dialog boxes. Just do it and provide an Undo, and leave the user alone. Millions will thank you.<p>An outcome you can only reach by looking at the <i>whole</i> system, not just the way it looks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jasber</author><text>I often wish I had an undo button in the terminal. Obviously not everything can have an undo. But most things (anything you can undo in Windows) you should be able to undo on the Web.<p>This is what people will expect from web applications or they won't use them.</text></comment> |
27,894,800 | 27,895,059 | 1 | 2 | 27,893,181 | train | <story><title>size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer</title><url>https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/20/1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mnw21cam</author><text>I love the little nugget in the mitigations section. You can plug the hole for a normal filesystem, but then FUSE filesystems have an additional problem: &quot;if an attacker FUSE-mounts a long directory (longer than 8MB), then systemd exhausts its stack, crashes, and therefore crashes the entire operating system (a kernel panic).&quot;<p>If there&#x27;s one place other than the kernel where truly defensive programming should be applied, it is systemd.</text></comment> | <story><title>size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer</title><url>https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/20/1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Faaak</author><text>Anyone knows how to try the PoC (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openwall.com&#x2F;lists&#x2F;oss-security&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;20&#x2F;1&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openwall.com&#x2F;lists&#x2F;oss-security&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;20&#x2F;1&#x2F;1</a>) ?<p>For me it crashes into the fork_userns:177<p>PS: don&#x27;t need to downvote. Sometimes managers want you to prove that there&#x27;s a need to patch. It&#x27;s dumb but it&#x27;s what it is</text></comment> |
13,652,335 | 13,652,380 | 1 | 3 | 13,650,730 | train | <story><title>22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks</title><url>http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2017-january-22years-delphi.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wtbob</author><text>A weak point, though, is JavaScript — quite possibly the worst popular computer language in history. I honestly think I&#x27;d rather starve than write another line of JavaScript again. Even reading JavaScript diffs from other guys on my team is a horrible, terrible experience. It&#x27;s just a sad, awful, miserable, verbose, broken language.<p>As a compilation target from a better language, I suppose it&#x27;s mostly acceptable. But on its own? Never again.</text></item><item><author>metachris</author><text>The strong point of Electron is easy _cross-platform_ application development and packaging (spits out .exe, .app and Linux binary), with no further dependencies. Ever tried packaging a QT application for Mac, Windows and Linux? I can tell you it&#x27;s a painful experience, one I don&#x27;t want to repeat.<p>Also HTML+CSS allows for extremely versatile styling and fine-grained control of appearance.</text></item><item><author>yoodenvranx</author><text>Delphi is still unrivaled when it comes to rapid GUI prototyping in combination with easy deployment. It&#x27;s much easier than QT&#x2F;GTK and you usually get a standalone .exe with no external dependencies.<p>I really want to cry when I see the current alternatives... Node&#x2F;Electron with dozens of MB of runtime and all that Javascript stuff? What went wrong that we end up with this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tazjin</author><text>It&#x27;s not just that the language is bad, it&#x27;s also that the ecosystem encourages bloat and terrible implementations with layers of fixes glued on top of each other.<p>My current main work laptop (a pre-TouchBar generation MBP) can only barely run a &quot;heavy&quot; JS-application like Slack and something like IntelliJ at the same time.<p>Migrating Slack into an IRC client reduces the CPU &amp; memory footprint of _sending, receiving and displaying text_ by over 90%.<p>Something went seriously wrong somewhere and we&#x27;re only going deeper into the hole.</text></comment> | <story><title>22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks</title><url>http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2017-january-22years-delphi.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wtbob</author><text>A weak point, though, is JavaScript — quite possibly the worst popular computer language in history. I honestly think I&#x27;d rather starve than write another line of JavaScript again. Even reading JavaScript diffs from other guys on my team is a horrible, terrible experience. It&#x27;s just a sad, awful, miserable, verbose, broken language.<p>As a compilation target from a better language, I suppose it&#x27;s mostly acceptable. But on its own? Never again.</text></item><item><author>metachris</author><text>The strong point of Electron is easy _cross-platform_ application development and packaging (spits out .exe, .app and Linux binary), with no further dependencies. Ever tried packaging a QT application for Mac, Windows and Linux? I can tell you it&#x27;s a painful experience, one I don&#x27;t want to repeat.<p>Also HTML+CSS allows for extremely versatile styling and fine-grained control of appearance.</text></item><item><author>yoodenvranx</author><text>Delphi is still unrivaled when it comes to rapid GUI prototyping in combination with easy deployment. It&#x27;s much easier than QT&#x2F;GTK and you usually get a standalone .exe with no external dependencies.<p>I really want to cry when I see the current alternatives... Node&#x2F;Electron with dozens of MB of runtime and all that Javascript stuff? What went wrong that we end up with this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigtunacan</author><text>Every programming language has it&#x27;s warts. JavaScript is in a unique position in terms of the level of backwards compatibility it is required to maintain. It integrates some powerful features with it&#x27;s lisp-y functional style and closures. It&#x27;s implementation of prototypal inheritence isn&#x27;t the greatest I&#x27;ve seen, but it&#x27;s by far the most successful prototype based language and that is something I personally wouldn&#x27;t mind seeing become more mainstream.<p>Despite thinking JavaScript itself has some really great qualities; I generally don&#x27;t think Electron is a great solution for desktop applications. Executables are too large and slow compared to a good old fashioned native application.</text></comment> |
40,232,440 | 40,232,193 | 1 | 3 | 40,231,515 | train | <story><title>mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours</title><url>https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/oncology/mrna-cancer-vaccine-reprograms-immune-system-to-tackle-glioblastoma/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>femto</author><text>Richard Scolyer, first patient for a Glioblastoma vaccine, is 10 months in and counting. (I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s mRNA based.) The treatment was vaccine, followed by surgery to remove the tumour, followed by more vaccine to prevent recurrence. The vaccine course is up to 8 out of 10 planned doses. So far it hasn&#x27;t come back.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;ProfRScolyer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;ProfRScolyer</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Richard_Scolyer#Cancer_diagnosis_and_treatment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Richard_Scolyer#Cancer_diagnos...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours</title><url>https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/oncology/mrna-cancer-vaccine-reprograms-immune-system-to-tackle-glioblastoma/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adamredwoods</author><text>Sounds effective, I&#x27;ve always had a hunch the real path to controlling cancer is not a singular approach. Cancer mutates too much.<p>&gt;&gt; “Instead of us injecting single particles, we’re injecting clusters of particles that are wrapping around each other like onions, like a bag full of onions,” said Elias Sayour, MD, PhD, a UF Health pediatric oncologist who pioneered the new vaccine. “And the reason we’ve done that in the context of cancer is these clusters alert the immune system in a much more profound way than single particles would.” Results from the canine trial showed how the vaccine reprogrammed the tumor microenvironment (TME) within days, allowing the activated immune system cells to fight the tumor.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cell.com&#x2F;cell&#x2F;abstract&#x2F;S0092-8674(24)00398-2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cell.com&#x2F;cell&#x2F;abstract&#x2F;S0092-8674(24)00398-2</a></text></comment> |
13,906,911 | 13,906,897 | 1 | 3 | 13,906,573 | train | <story><title>I will not log in to your website</title><url>http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3203</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucb1e</author><text>I do not recognize the problem the author talks about, but it seems weird. From the article:<p>&gt; Prof. Aaronson, given your expertise, we’d be incredibly grateful for your feedback on a paper &#x2F; report &#x2F; grant proposal about quantum computing. To access the document in question, ...<p>It seems odd to want feedback and then ask someone to go and register somewhere, probably requiring to accept a bunch of legalese in the privacy policy and terms of service... Just attach the document you want feedback on, right?<p>At least if I&#x27;d email someone (out of the blue or an acquaintance) for feedback due to his expertise, I&#x27;d be grateful for the time taken and try to make it as easy as possible to do.<p>Edit: it has been made clear to me that it&#x27;s not about individuals contacting the author, it&#x27;s some big corporation that probably sends this out, probably in an automated manner. I still don&#x27;t understand why anyone would bother with this when &quot;peer reviews&quot; can happen between &quot;peers&quot; (i.e. sending each other documents for review, rather than going through the middleman that everyone seems to hate such as Elsevier, if blog posts linked on HN are to be believed).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelhoffman</author><text>This is the norm in academic publishing. Not only do publishers (often for-profit publishers with huge profit margins) ask us academics to critically review submitted manuscripts gratis with short deadlines, but they also want us to use their poorly designed, byzantine online systems to do it.<p>It&#x27;s most fun when you are just trying to decline this invitation because you do not have time and are asked to create an account and password (with stupid password rules, naturally), and fill out an amount of personal information just to do that.</text></comment> | <story><title>I will not log in to your website</title><url>http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3203</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucb1e</author><text>I do not recognize the problem the author talks about, but it seems weird. From the article:<p>&gt; Prof. Aaronson, given your expertise, we’d be incredibly grateful for your feedback on a paper &#x2F; report &#x2F; grant proposal about quantum computing. To access the document in question, ...<p>It seems odd to want feedback and then ask someone to go and register somewhere, probably requiring to accept a bunch of legalese in the privacy policy and terms of service... Just attach the document you want feedback on, right?<p>At least if I&#x27;d email someone (out of the blue or an acquaintance) for feedback due to his expertise, I&#x27;d be grateful for the time taken and try to make it as easy as possible to do.<p>Edit: it has been made clear to me that it&#x27;s not about individuals contacting the author, it&#x27;s some big corporation that probably sends this out, probably in an automated manner. I still don&#x27;t understand why anyone would bother with this when &quot;peer reviews&quot; can happen between &quot;peers&quot; (i.e. sending each other documents for review, rather than going through the middleman that everyone seems to hate such as Elsevier, if blog posts linked on HN are to be believed).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evanb</author><text>When asked to peer review something for academic publication, the PDF of the paper is, in my experience, never ever emailed.</text></comment> |
20,728,114 | 20,728,026 | 1 | 2 | 20,727,126 | train | <story><title>Tech Interview Handbook</title><url>https://yangshun.github.io/tech-interview-handbook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>new299</author><text>Personally I can&#x27;t see an issue with very simple FizzBuzz style programming interview questions. I used to ask a simple &quot;count duplicate substrings&quot; question [1]. Maybe some people consider this too hard? I never used to require exact syntax, and would have been happy with pseudo-code. Using libraries is fine etc..<p>I also found very few people could solve this (similar non-SF large city location). Occasionally, people who could not solve this were hired for other teams. Based on their performance, I don&#x27;t think I would have been comfortable working with them.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s unreasonable. But I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;d use it as a screen if I was hiring now. I think I&#x27;d just have a chat and try and discuss a previous project. After that I&#x27;d move to a paid take home project (ideally representing real, useful work).<p>[1] Take a string, for example &quot;ABCCABC&quot; and count the number of times each 3 character substring occurs. In this case the answer would be 2xABC 1xBCC 1xCCA 1xCAB.</text></item><item><author>DavidWoof</author><text>I realize everybody&#x27;s going to jump in and rant about algorithms in interviews, but I wish you&#x27;d all add something constructive as well.<p>I just had to conduct a round of interviews in a non-SF large US city, and it was a hellish crapshoot. Resumes are meaningless, and often re-written by recruiters to match the job anyway. Everyone has the same canned answers to the stupid behavioral questions. And as for the code, we included what we thought was a trivial nested for-loop problem and virtually nobody could even get started on it.<p>Is this kind of code problem too complicated in your opinion? For all I join in when complaining about irrelevant algorithmic questions, I have to admit that they at least test <i>something</i>, even if it&#x27;s just willingness to study for the interview.<p>Instead of reading everybody&#x27;s complaints about interviewing, I&#x27;d love to hear how you think it should be done. Because I have to admit I&#x27;m pretty much lost right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradlys</author><text>I never had any technical interview prep when I started. I could code just fine. I demonstrated that at my other jobs and in school well enough. Then I started interviewing for SF positions that did these interviews.<p>I froze up. I couldn&#x27;t talk and think at the same time. I didn&#x27;t have the skillset for doing this in a very intense scenario. In my case, I was homeless and needed a job ASAP. Every interview felt like life or death to me.<p>First one I was asked to reverse a string in C. I hadn&#x27;t done C in a few months. I froze up on syntax. I looked like an idiot who couldn&#x27;t do it.<p>I could imagine many people who have never experienced this format (or haven&#x27;t experienced it much) would easily freak out and look stupid as bricks like I did.<p>I&#x27;ve since done over 200 technical interviews (as the interviewee) and I usually sweep. Still fail at FAANG but I always get the solutions. (Even the leetcode hard ones) Just not sure why I fail but cest la vie.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tech Interview Handbook</title><url>https://yangshun.github.io/tech-interview-handbook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>new299</author><text>Personally I can&#x27;t see an issue with very simple FizzBuzz style programming interview questions. I used to ask a simple &quot;count duplicate substrings&quot; question [1]. Maybe some people consider this too hard? I never used to require exact syntax, and would have been happy with pseudo-code. Using libraries is fine etc..<p>I also found very few people could solve this (similar non-SF large city location). Occasionally, people who could not solve this were hired for other teams. Based on their performance, I don&#x27;t think I would have been comfortable working with them.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s unreasonable. But I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;d use it as a screen if I was hiring now. I think I&#x27;d just have a chat and try and discuss a previous project. After that I&#x27;d move to a paid take home project (ideally representing real, useful work).<p>[1] Take a string, for example &quot;ABCCABC&quot; and count the number of times each 3 character substring occurs. In this case the answer would be 2xABC 1xBCC 1xCCA 1xCAB.</text></item><item><author>DavidWoof</author><text>I realize everybody&#x27;s going to jump in and rant about algorithms in interviews, but I wish you&#x27;d all add something constructive as well.<p>I just had to conduct a round of interviews in a non-SF large US city, and it was a hellish crapshoot. Resumes are meaningless, and often re-written by recruiters to match the job anyway. Everyone has the same canned answers to the stupid behavioral questions. And as for the code, we included what we thought was a trivial nested for-loop problem and virtually nobody could even get started on it.<p>Is this kind of code problem too complicated in your opinion? For all I join in when complaining about irrelevant algorithmic questions, I have to admit that they at least test <i>something</i>, even if it&#x27;s just willingness to study for the interview.<p>Instead of reading everybody&#x27;s complaints about interviewing, I&#x27;d love to hear how you think it should be done. Because I have to admit I&#x27;m pretty much lost right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lacker</author><text>Of course <i>some</i> people will consider that question to be too hard. But you may not want to hire those people. The point of an interview process is for you to pick the people you want to hire, not to ask questions that everyone agrees aren’t too hard.</text></comment> |
37,417,680 | 37,417,169 | 1 | 2 | 37,416,430 | train | <story><title>Exa Is Deprecated</title><url>https://github.com/ogham/exa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boxed</author><text>I wish there was a better way for the community to handle this situation without the original author doing what we see here. Sometimes the original author dies unexpectedly for example and it&#x27;s very hard to salvage the work into a maintained fork.<p>I wrote about this in 2018: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kodare.net&#x2F;2018&#x2F;06&#x2F;25&#x2F;salvaging-abandoned-projects.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kodare.net&#x2F;2018&#x2F;06&#x2F;25&#x2F;salvaging-abandoned-projects.h...</a></text></item><item><author>goku12</author><text>I hope that the author Benjamin Sago is alright. It&#x27;s always concerning when FOSS developers disappear for a while - even though it isn&#x27;t uncommon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikeee</author><text>You can set a successor in your GitHub settings:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;github&#x2F;setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account&#x2F;maintaining-ownership-continuity-of-your-user-accounts-repositories" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;github&#x2F;setting-up-and-managing-your-...</a><p>That successor will gain access to the _public_ repos of your account after presenting a death certificate. As it&#x27;s only for public repositories, it&#x27;s a no-brainer for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Exa Is Deprecated</title><url>https://github.com/ogham/exa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boxed</author><text>I wish there was a better way for the community to handle this situation without the original author doing what we see here. Sometimes the original author dies unexpectedly for example and it&#x27;s very hard to salvage the work into a maintained fork.<p>I wrote about this in 2018: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kodare.net&#x2F;2018&#x2F;06&#x2F;25&#x2F;salvaging-abandoned-projects.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kodare.net&#x2F;2018&#x2F;06&#x2F;25&#x2F;salvaging-abandoned-projects.h...</a></text></item><item><author>goku12</author><text>I hope that the author Benjamin Sago is alright. It&#x27;s always concerning when FOSS developers disappear for a while - even though it isn&#x27;t uncommon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dale_glass</author><text>We&#x27;ve started a non-profit to deal with such issues. It&#x27;s a lot of work, but well worthwhile in the long term because part of the process is clarifying such issues, and the organization keeps on existing regardless of any individual member.<p>Still, even this situation is much better than what we had before. It&#x27;s on github and so the project doesn&#x27;t randomly vanish from existence when the owner isn&#x27;t there to maintain the machine in their closet anymore. Contributors see each other and can realize &quot;Hey, maintainer isn&#x27;t active anymore but there&#x27;s still interest in the project, maybe we should do something about this&quot;.</text></comment> |
7,826,161 | 7,826,127 | 1 | 2 | 7,825,925 | train | <story><title>Who or What Broke My Kids?</title><url>http://powersfulmath.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/who-or-what-broke-my-kids/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>falcolas</author><text>I&#x27;m 36, and math in my youth was always about getting the right answer, and proving how I got that answer, even up through college calculus and discrete mathematics. Heck, that&#x27;s one of the things I really enjoyed about math, when compared to, say, English.<p>So, if math isn&#x27;t about getting the right answer, it&#x27;s been broken a long time.<p>Even today, math as I&#x27;ve explored it (which admittedly hasn&#x27;t been much) has right and wrong answers. Sure, there&#x27;s a bit of fuzz in the answers now, but a probabilistic model which can&#x27;t determine ham from spam some majority of the time isn&#x27;t kinda right, or even on the spectrum of right. It&#x27;s just wrong, and needs to be fixed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acangiano</author><text>When I was a kid I used to love solving the same problem in multiple ways. I remember during a written test in high school, I solved some pre-calculus problems in 4 or 5 ways within the allotted time. The coolest part for me was seeing that, no matter the approach, they all led to the same answer. I didn&#x27;t need to wait for my grades back from the teacher to know if my calculations were right. I got confirmation by simply comparing the answers that each method I used provided. I admit that at times periods in Trigonometry provided a two second scare when the results were equivalent but appeared different on paper. Once I had to get my teacher to change my grade precisely for this reason.<p>Anyway, getting the answer right and seeing which different angles I could take to get to those results were entirely part of the reason why I loved math. The answer wasn&#x27;t per se the number at the end. The answer was, for each method I employed, the right sequence of logical and mathematically sound steps to that final value.<p>I would have never really been so fascinated by mathematics and related disciplines if it weren&#x27;t for that sense of absolute, meritocratic, objective wrong or right.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who or What Broke My Kids?</title><url>http://powersfulmath.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/who-or-what-broke-my-kids/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>falcolas</author><text>I&#x27;m 36, and math in my youth was always about getting the right answer, and proving how I got that answer, even up through college calculus and discrete mathematics. Heck, that&#x27;s one of the things I really enjoyed about math, when compared to, say, English.<p>So, if math isn&#x27;t about getting the right answer, it&#x27;s been broken a long time.<p>Even today, math as I&#x27;ve explored it (which admittedly hasn&#x27;t been much) has right and wrong answers. Sure, there&#x27;s a bit of fuzz in the answers now, but a probabilistic model which can&#x27;t determine ham from spam some majority of the time isn&#x27;t kinda right, or even on the spectrum of right. It&#x27;s just wrong, and needs to be fixed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lighthazard</author><text>Weird, I&#x27;m 26 and in college math was all about &#x27;how you got there&#x27;. Our tests were like essays, a single problem in either paragraph form or formula form, and several pages to write down how you achieved your goal. Following proper procedure was rewarded, even if the answer is wrong.<p>In high school, however, my school implemented a &#x27;pass the test first&#x27; policy. We learned what the Regents (spelling on this) exam would have and learned only that. Still, most of my teachers always graded the procedure and not the answers (in fact, my teachers suggested we look at the answers afterwards to compare if our answer is right).</text></comment> |
14,950,439 | 14,949,822 | 1 | 2 | 14,948,857 | train | <story><title>On managing outrage in Silicon Valley</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/06/on-managing-outrage-in-silicon-valley/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EddieRingle</author><text>One of my first exposures to this &quot;manifesto&quot; was on Twitter with someone starting a thread with &quot;Google has a Nazi problem.&quot; The majority of the other responses I read either attacked the author, dismissed the entire text in whole, and&#x2F;or refused to actually argue the paper&#x27;s points because they saw them as so ridiculous or &quot;obviously&quot; wrong.<p>I read the paper. I don&#x27;t see at all how it relates to fascism, Trumpism, or whatever you want to call it.<p>I am against discrimination, and that includes positive discrimination.<p>If there were factual inaccuracies in what the author wrote, why not discuss them? Why not use high-quality sources to validate your argument? I wish it was the opposite, but I don&#x27;t have the time to research the psychological&#x2F;sociological perspectives on these issues. Human civilization has grown thanks to being able to specialize. I specialize and (hopefully) make contributions in one field, but I depend on others that have specialized elsewhere to provide knowledge and resources I can depend on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blablabla123</author><text>It&#x27;s great that the person stated his opinion. I regard him much higher than hypocrites who think and act the same, but pretend to be 1000% pc.<p>It&#x27;s not necessary to tediously counter-argue every single argument the author made. I&#x27;m sure you don&#x27;t expect people to counter-argue overly long badly written texts by various political ideologists from today or the past. I&#x27;m convinced it suffices to just argue why summary is wrong or rather the opposite is true.<p>As a matter of fact, other people have done this work for us, so instead of arguing it suffices to do a literature research. (I&#x27;m sure you know how to google feminism and that you might have an hour or two time to watch Youtube) But I&#x27;m happy to bring my own crude arguments:<p>- people, both male and female, oftentimes don&#x27;t do things because they think they are not able to do them<p>- teachers have a bias towards encouraging certain stereotypes<p>- the whole environment pushes certain behaviours and interests on people<p>Speaking for myself (being male) my Physics teacher said nothing when I told him in class that I&#x27;m going to study Physics. He was encouraging the other people who planned to study that or an Engineering subject, not me. Even my father discouraged me from studying it because he thought my grades where not good enough and that I wouldn&#x27;t be that kind of person. Still I managed to study very quickly and successfully. During my studies I also learned, that my thinking is different than other peoples&#x27;. I think more in pictures, whereas my peers in Theoretical Particle Physics rather thought in texts.<p>At work I often get overtalked and still deliver over-average results because I emphasise being polite, use proper argument and I look 10 years younger than I am. This really sucks and this proves to me that if you are female, you are basically screwed if you want to do something engineering like because even Engineers don&#x27;t act analytically but emotionally based on prejudices.</text></comment> | <story><title>On managing outrage in Silicon Valley</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/06/on-managing-outrage-in-silicon-valley/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EddieRingle</author><text>One of my first exposures to this &quot;manifesto&quot; was on Twitter with someone starting a thread with &quot;Google has a Nazi problem.&quot; The majority of the other responses I read either attacked the author, dismissed the entire text in whole, and&#x2F;or refused to actually argue the paper&#x27;s points because they saw them as so ridiculous or &quot;obviously&quot; wrong.<p>I read the paper. I don&#x27;t see at all how it relates to fascism, Trumpism, or whatever you want to call it.<p>I am against discrimination, and that includes positive discrimination.<p>If there were factual inaccuracies in what the author wrote, why not discuss them? Why not use high-quality sources to validate your argument? I wish it was the opposite, but I don&#x27;t have the time to research the psychological&#x2F;sociological perspectives on these issues. Human civilization has grown thanks to being able to specialize. I specialize and (hopefully) make contributions in one field, but I depend on others that have specialized elsewhere to provide knowledge and resources I can depend on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bbctol</author><text>Because you were on Twitter? The most annoying thing about this back-and-forth ping-ponging of increasing outrage is that everyone, on both sides, only reacts to the silliest arguments. Sturgeon&#x27;s Law holds up pretty well for hot takes, and the majority of anything written on an issue is likely to be bad. If most of the responses you read struck you as irrational, that&#x27;s a function of the infrastructure that sends you information more than the quality of either side.</text></comment> |
7,152,181 | 7,151,778 | 1 | 3 | 7,151,433 | train | <story><title>Python Idioms [pdf]</title><url>http://safehammad.com/downloads/python-idioms-2014-01-16.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csense</author><text>I disagree with promoting try &#x2F; catch. Exceptions like ValueError can really happen almost anywhere, so it is usually better to sanitize your inputs.<p>E.g. something like:<p><pre><code> try:
something = myfunc(d[&#x27;x&#x27;])
except ValueError:
something = None
</code></pre>
The programmer&#x27;s intent is probably to only catch errors in the key lookup d[&#x27;x&#x27;], but if there is some bug in the implementation of myfunc() or any of the functions called by myfunc() which causes a ValueError to unintentionally be raised, it will be caught by the except.<p>For dictionary lookups specifically, get() is usually preferable:<p><pre><code> something = d.get(&#x27;x&#x27;)
if something is not None:
something = myfunc(something)
</code></pre>
Or if dictionary may potentially contain None values:<p><pre><code> if &#x27;x&#x27; in d:
something = myfunc(d[&#x27;x&#x27;])</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smnrchrds</author><text>Not to counter your point, but I would like to quote from PEP8 here:<p>Additionally, for all try&#x2F;except clauses, limit the try clause to the absolute minimum amount of code necessary. Again, this avoids masking bugs.<p>Yes:<p><pre><code> try:
value = collection[key]
except KeyError:
return key_not_found(key)
else:
return handle_value(value)
</code></pre>
No:<p><pre><code> try:
# Too broad!
return handle_value(collection[key])
except KeyError:
# Will also catch KeyError raised by handle_value()
return key_not_found(key)</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Python Idioms [pdf]</title><url>http://safehammad.com/downloads/python-idioms-2014-01-16.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csense</author><text>I disagree with promoting try &#x2F; catch. Exceptions like ValueError can really happen almost anywhere, so it is usually better to sanitize your inputs.<p>E.g. something like:<p><pre><code> try:
something = myfunc(d[&#x27;x&#x27;])
except ValueError:
something = None
</code></pre>
The programmer&#x27;s intent is probably to only catch errors in the key lookup d[&#x27;x&#x27;], but if there is some bug in the implementation of myfunc() or any of the functions called by myfunc() which causes a ValueError to unintentionally be raised, it will be caught by the except.<p>For dictionary lookups specifically, get() is usually preferable:<p><pre><code> something = d.get(&#x27;x&#x27;)
if something is not None:
something = myfunc(something)
</code></pre>
Or if dictionary may potentially contain None values:<p><pre><code> if &#x27;x&#x27; in d:
something = myfunc(d[&#x27;x&#x27;])</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>middleclick</author><text>While not disagreeing with your case, there are some cases where I try to follow this rule because in most of those cases, I would expect that there is no exception and if there is, then catch it.<p><pre><code> try:
open(FILE)
except IOError:
it failed</code></pre></text></comment> |
18,127,294 | 18,126,032 | 1 | 2 | 18,125,789 | train | <story><title>Show HN: ekill – Like xkill, but for annoying web page elements</title><url>https://github.com/rhardih/ekill</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>If you&#x27;re using ublock origin on Chromium, you already have this.<p>Go to chrome:&#x2F;&#x2F;extensions&#x2F;shortcuts and set a shortcut on &quot;Enter element zapper mode&quot;.<p>I set it to ctrl+shift+q because I kept accidentally closing my browser and I needed something to override it ...</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: ekill – Like xkill, but for annoying web page elements</title><url>https://github.com/rhardih/ekill</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Zekio</author><text>Well if you already use uBlock Origin you have multiple mode like this all with possible custom hotkeys if you want something like this</text></comment> |
39,421,488 | 39,420,758 | 1 | 2 | 39,418,283 | train | <story><title>CorsixTH: Open-source clone of Theme Hospital</title><url>https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ta1243</author><text>Works on: &quot; Windows (7, 8, 10, 11) &quot;<p>Oh well.</text></item><item><author>HanClinto</author><text>75% off -- not bad!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gog.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;game&#x2F;two_point_hospital" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gog.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;game&#x2F;two_point_hospital</a></text></item><item><author>RobotToaster</author><text>Also on sale on GoG.</text></item><item><author>omarqureshi</author><text>SEGA employee here, so, a little biased, however, I don&#x27;t play many SEGA games. For what it&#x27;s worth one of our studios has members that are ex-Bullfrog and have Two Point Hospital - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;535930&#x2F;Two_Point_Hospital&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;535930&#x2F;Two_Point_Hospital...</a><p>Give it a try, this is one of the few ones that I have played and enjoyed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__jonas</author><text>That&#x27;s odd, the steam version does support Linux (natively) and Mac<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;535930&#x2F;Two_Point_Hospital&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;535930&#x2F;Two_Point_Hospital...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>CorsixTH: Open-source clone of Theme Hospital</title><url>https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ta1243</author><text>Works on: &quot; Windows (7, 8, 10, 11) &quot;<p>Oh well.</text></item><item><author>HanClinto</author><text>75% off -- not bad!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gog.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;game&#x2F;two_point_hospital" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gog.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;game&#x2F;two_point_hospital</a></text></item><item><author>RobotToaster</author><text>Also on sale on GoG.</text></item><item><author>omarqureshi</author><text>SEGA employee here, so, a little biased, however, I don&#x27;t play many SEGA games. For what it&#x27;s worth one of our studios has members that are ex-Bullfrog and have Two Point Hospital - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;535930&#x2F;Two_Point_Hospital&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;535930&#x2F;Two_Point_Hospital...</a><p>Give it a try, this is one of the few ones that I have played and enjoyed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jameshart</author><text>It&#x27;s time to upgrade from XP</text></comment> |
22,150,653 | 22,150,769 | 1 | 3 | 22,150,137 | train | <story><title>If we weren’t the first industrial civilization on Earth, would we ever know?</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610886/if-we-werent-the-first-industrial-civilization-on-earth-would-we-ever-know/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>The History Channel had a 20 episode series called <i>Life After People</i> that looked at what would happen if every human suddenly disappeared.<p>The National Geographic had a similar, but only one episode program looking at that questions, called <i>Aftermath: Population Zero</i>.<p>I have a vague recollection of seeing something like this on one of Discovery&#x27;s channels, too, but I may be mixing that up with an article in their magazine.<p>My recollection is that they all concluded that in the very long term (tens of millions of years), if some other species evolved intelligence it would probably not be able to tell we were here.<p>Some of the materials we used might survive, but things like glaciers in ice ages would grind them to a powder. The next intelligent species might notice these odd concentrations of unusual combinations of metal particles and powdered long chain carbon compounds, but there would be nothing to tell them it wasn&#x27;t made by some unknown natural process.</text></comment> | <story><title>If we weren’t the first industrial civilization on Earth, would we ever know?</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610886/if-we-werent-the-first-industrial-civilization-on-earth-would-we-ever-know/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klodolph</author><text>We are the first nuclear civilization.<p>We know the expected isotope ratios too well and test them too often. This is how we discovered evidence of a natural nuclear reactor from 1.7 Gya. Any other nuclear civilization would have changed the isotope ratios in detectable ways in some part of the world.</text></comment> |
27,098,965 | 27,098,684 | 1 | 3 | 27,097,680 | train | <story><title>AMD server CPUs capture highest market share gains from Intel in 15 years</title><url>https://hothardware.com/news/amd-epyc-server-cpu-gains-highest-share-intel-15-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xy</author><text>What&#x27;s stopping more people from moving cloud workloads to AMD? Unless you&#x27;re running a rickety legacy application using Intel features you&#x27;ll instantly save money by moving to AMD.<p>Both my work and all my side projects have moved to AMD instances where available, except for some legacy on-prem stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>&gt; What&#x27;s stopping more people from moving cloud workloads to AMD?<p>It&#x27;s not just about CPU bound workloads but also things that are heavily I&#x2F;O dependent (typically on bare metal hardware that you own, rather than instances you rent somewhere). There&#x27;s lots of networking and storage things that would be performance bottlenecked on an intel cpu with less PCI-E lanes. Having a 16-core CPU around $950 that has 128 PCI-E 4.0 lanes is very useful for many things.<p>And not just for EPYC but also the single socket threadripper parts, which are used in both higher end workstations and some types of server.</text></comment> | <story><title>AMD server CPUs capture highest market share gains from Intel in 15 years</title><url>https://hothardware.com/news/amd-epyc-server-cpu-gains-highest-share-intel-15-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xy</author><text>What&#x27;s stopping more people from moving cloud workloads to AMD? Unless you&#x27;re running a rickety legacy application using Intel features you&#x27;ll instantly save money by moving to AMD.<p>Both my work and all my side projects have moved to AMD instances where available, except for some legacy on-prem stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrischen</author><text>I run infrastructure for my startup and previously was “locked in” because of AWS reserved instances that may come with multi-year tenancies. However recently I committed to some new generation AMD instances, but Graviton (ARM) were serious contenders.</text></comment> |
18,317,011 | 18,315,549 | 1 | 2 | 18,315,038 | train | <story><title>Malicious Python libraries found and removed from PyPI</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/twelve-malicious-python-libraries-found-and-removed-from-pypi/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ris</author><text>Ah, wild west package repositories...<p>Only yesterday the developers of Itsdangerous went and <i>deleted</i> their recently-released 1.0.0 version. That&#x27;s right. Deleted. Gone. Anyone who made the upgrade and for some insane reason were using pip in their release pipeline suddenly had an un-deployable app.<p>And people complain that they don&#x27;t want maintainers &quot;getting in the way&quot; between them and developers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Malicious Python libraries found and removed from PyPI</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/twelve-malicious-python-libraries-found-and-removed-from-pypi/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JackC</author><text>Another pypi issue I&#x27;ve been wondering about recently is binary wheels. We saw an issue a few weeks back where pipenv hashes stopped matching because binary wheels were added for a package years after the last release, and it wasn&#x27;t immediately obvious how to check if they were legitimate. It would be nice if there was some automated scan to check that binary builds match the source.<p>I think there have been some python package reproducible build efforts at Debian, and there&#x27;s a standard image for building wheels, so maybe that&#x27;s somewhat possible?</text></comment> |
34,823,506 | 34,823,333 | 1 | 2 | 34,820,768 | train | <story><title>I'm starting a zero waste grocery delivery service in NYC. Anybody interested?</title><url>https://zerowastenyc.shop/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grandmczeb</author><text>I met the owners of a store like this in the Bay Area. Their backyard is filled with left over plastic containers because they’re embarrassed to be seen taking anything to the dump.</text></item><item><author>bberenberg</author><text>There’s a “zero waste” store here in Bushwick. Everything you buy is in giant barrels &#x2F; tubs. However, if you look into it, they actually source everything in relatively small bags that they break down and dump into large tubs. It’s a problem earlier in the supply chain. How do you plan to address this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VWWHFSfQ</author><text>Similarly I used to work overnight in a strip mall next door to a PC&#x2F;e-waste &quot;recycling&quot; place. Out back in the alley was just a massive pile of obsolete 90s&#x2F;early 2000s PCs that hadn&#x27;t been broken down or stripped of e-waste in any way. I&#x27;d go rummaging through it sometimes looking for a usable Pentium 3 processor and some ram. Maybe a hard disk that wasn&#x27;t roached. Built a bunch of fun little Linux computers with those.<p>Anyway, the owner went to jail for something or other unrelated. I&#x27;m sure all that stuff went to the landfill.</text></comment> | <story><title>I'm starting a zero waste grocery delivery service in NYC. Anybody interested?</title><url>https://zerowastenyc.shop/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grandmczeb</author><text>I met the owners of a store like this in the Bay Area. Their backyard is filled with left over plastic containers because they’re embarrassed to be seen taking anything to the dump.</text></item><item><author>bberenberg</author><text>There’s a “zero waste” store here in Bushwick. Everything you buy is in giant barrels &#x2F; tubs. However, if you look into it, they actually source everything in relatively small bags that they break down and dump into large tubs. It’s a problem earlier in the supply chain. How do you plan to address this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whatshisface</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t a yard full of plastic containers be... more embarrassing?</text></comment> |
41,545,049 | 41,544,818 | 1 | 3 | 41,544,364 | train | <story><title>Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat</title><url>https://zachxbt.mirror.xyz/B0-UJtxN41cJhpPtKv0v2LZ8u-0PwZ4ecMPEdX4l8vE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattmaroon</author><text>Serious question, if the United States decided to unilaterally cut North Korea off from the Internet, how hard would that be to do? Could we just knock out a few cables?<p>North Korea pretty much only uses the Internet for scams Or to make money in violation of sanctions. They certainly don’t allow their citizens to use it for anything else, and they don’t allow their citizens to leave the country because they would never come back.<p>Even if it were only temporary, suddenly cutting off the Internet to the country would expose all of those remote workers to the people who employ them and don’t realize they are employing North Koreans when they all disappear at once.<p>Is this just not logistically feasible? or are we just too afraid it would be unpalatable to our allies? I can’t be the first person who has thought of this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat</title><url>https://zachxbt.mirror.xyz/B0-UJtxN41cJhpPtKv0v2LZ8u-0PwZ4ecMPEdX4l8vE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walterbell</author><text>US&#x2F;Canada 2024, $3 billion in fines by US regulators, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rupakghose.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;td-banks-aml-issues-and-fintechs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rupakghose.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;td-banks-aml-issues-and-fi...</a><p><i>&gt; DoJ investigation found.. [banking] business had been used to launder more than $650m between 2016 and 2021 from US fentanyl sales for Chinese crime groups and drug traffickers.</i><p>Canada 2018, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33918115">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33918115</a><p><i>&gt; An estimated $5.3 billion of laundered money into B.C. real estate in 2018 hiked housing prices 5 per cent, two special reports released Thursday by the provincial government show.</i><p>Australia 2015, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrobusiness.com.au&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;stop-money-laundering-so-our-kids-can-buy-homes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrobusiness.com.au&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;stop-money-launderi...</a><p><i>&gt; Credit Suisse estimates some $28 billion of Chinese money has been invested in the Australian housing market over the past six years</i></text></comment> |
41,386,195 | 41,385,859 | 1 | 2 | 41,385,546 | train | <story><title>A post by Guido van Rossum removed for violating Python community guidelines</title><url>https://discuss.python.org/t/should-we-consider-ranked-choice-voting-for-sc-elections/61880</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EvanAnderson</author><text>I&#x27;m an outsider who only knows Guido van Rossum by way of interviews his writing.<p>Assuming your quote is what the original text said (I don&#x27;t disbelieve you-- but nobody can see it to confirm) why would this have violated community standards? Is there some rule about not mentioning &quot;un-persons&quot; or something?<p>It&#x27;s very confusing.<p>Edit: Answering my own question. There appears to be a kerfuffle afoot. Apparently the Steering Council has suspended a core developer for 3 months[0] but isn&#x27;t naming the suspended developer or citing specific reasons why (per [1] and sparking a call for a vote of no confidence in the council which did not succeed).<p>Apparently even mentioning the suspended person (without naming them) is enough for even Guido van Rossum to be censored. Wow.<p>Edit 2: The suspended developer is Tim Peters[3].<p>Edit 3: Altered paragraph &quot;Edit:&quot; from &quot;...or the reason why[1] (&quot; to &quot;...or citing specific reasons why (per [1]&quot;.<p>Edit 4: Added &quot;which did not succeed&quot; after &quot;...vote of no confidence in the council&quot;.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;three-month-suspension-for-a-core-developer&#x2F;60250" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;three-month-suspension-for-a-co...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;calling-for-a-vote-of-no-confidence&#x2F;61557" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;calling-for-a-vote-of-no-confid...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrismcdonough.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-shameful-defenestration-of-tim" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrismcdonough.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-shameful-defenestr...</a></text></item><item><author>oblvious-earth</author><text>The original text stated:<p>&gt; I don’t know much about voting systems, but I know someone who does. Unfortunately he’s currently banned. Maybe we can wait until his 3-month ban expires and ask him for advice?<p>Currently, the text reads:<p>&gt; This post was flagged by the community and is temporarily hidden.<p>Since it has been hidden for more than 24 hours, this suggests that a moderator action has marked it as permanently hidden. Due to a recent decision, this means no one outside of the moderators or admins can view it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;moderated-posts-are-no-longer-publicly-visible&#x2F;61648" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;moderated-posts-are-no-longer-p...</a><p>Edit: I meant to post slightly more direct link in title: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;should-we-consider-ranked-choice-voting-for-sc-elections&#x2F;61880&#x2F;6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;should-we-consider-ranked-choic...</a><p>Edit 2: Some comments suggest that Guido was banned from posting, but this is not accurate. I have edited the title from &quot;Guido van Rossum&#x27;s Post Removed for Violating Python Community Guidelines&quot; to &quot;A Post by Guido van Rossum Removed for Violating Python Community Guidelines&quot; to clarify what actually happened.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krick</author><text>That&#x27;s kinda nuts, but kinda absolutely in line with all trends of the last 5 years. I remember similar shit happening in Linux community (the shit won, naturally).<p>But, anyway, who is the &quot;Steering Council&quot; and how come they have more influence than the 2 people who basically created python the language and python the community?</text></comment> | <story><title>A post by Guido van Rossum removed for violating Python community guidelines</title><url>https://discuss.python.org/t/should-we-consider-ranked-choice-voting-for-sc-elections/61880</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EvanAnderson</author><text>I&#x27;m an outsider who only knows Guido van Rossum by way of interviews his writing.<p>Assuming your quote is what the original text said (I don&#x27;t disbelieve you-- but nobody can see it to confirm) why would this have violated community standards? Is there some rule about not mentioning &quot;un-persons&quot; or something?<p>It&#x27;s very confusing.<p>Edit: Answering my own question. There appears to be a kerfuffle afoot. Apparently the Steering Council has suspended a core developer for 3 months[0] but isn&#x27;t naming the suspended developer or citing specific reasons why (per [1] and sparking a call for a vote of no confidence in the council which did not succeed).<p>Apparently even mentioning the suspended person (without naming them) is enough for even Guido van Rossum to be censored. Wow.<p>Edit 2: The suspended developer is Tim Peters[3].<p>Edit 3: Altered paragraph &quot;Edit:&quot; from &quot;...or the reason why[1] (&quot; to &quot;...or citing specific reasons why (per [1]&quot;.<p>Edit 4: Added &quot;which did not succeed&quot; after &quot;...vote of no confidence in the council&quot;.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;three-month-suspension-for-a-core-developer&#x2F;60250" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;three-month-suspension-for-a-co...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;calling-for-a-vote-of-no-confidence&#x2F;61557" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;calling-for-a-vote-of-no-confid...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrismcdonough.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-shameful-defenestration-of-tim" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrismcdonough.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-shameful-defenestr...</a></text></item><item><author>oblvious-earth</author><text>The original text stated:<p>&gt; I don’t know much about voting systems, but I know someone who does. Unfortunately he’s currently banned. Maybe we can wait until his 3-month ban expires and ask him for advice?<p>Currently, the text reads:<p>&gt; This post was flagged by the community and is temporarily hidden.<p>Since it has been hidden for more than 24 hours, this suggests that a moderator action has marked it as permanently hidden. Due to a recent decision, this means no one outside of the moderators or admins can view it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;moderated-posts-are-no-longer-publicly-visible&#x2F;61648" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;moderated-posts-are-no-longer-p...</a><p>Edit: I meant to post slightly more direct link in title: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;should-we-consider-ranked-choice-voting-for-sc-elections&#x2F;61880&#x2F;6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;should-we-consider-ranked-choic...</a><p>Edit 2: Some comments suggest that Guido was banned from posting, but this is not accurate. I have edited the title from &quot;Guido van Rossum&#x27;s Post Removed for Violating Python Community Guidelines&quot; to &quot;A Post by Guido van Rossum Removed for Violating Python Community Guidelines&quot; to clarify what actually happened.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>germanjoey</author><text>Looks like some kind of power play...<p>Originally discussed here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41234180">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41234180</a></text></comment> |
22,977,892 | 22,977,763 | 1 | 2 | 22,977,076 | train | <story><title>UChicago doctors see ‘remarkable’ success using ventilator alternatives</title><url>https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/uchicago-medicine-doctors-see-truly-remarkable-success-using-ventilator-alternatives-to-treat-covid19</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>One of the most interesting parts of this press release, following it on other boards, is the immediate &quot;We already do that. Nothing new here.&quot;<p>That kind of reply would immediately lead me to think it was just a useless release, but then I see people posting comments along the lines of &quot;No, we don&#x27;t do that. In fact, we have a policy against doing that because of the danger of aerosolization&quot;<p>For my hacker&#x2F;systems wonks, this a great example of group learning happening world wide. I imagine there are many ICUs that do this, and many that forbid it. In such an environment, releases like this aren&#x27;t submarines or spam; they&#x27;re recurring prompts to administrators elsewhere that they might be missing something important.<p>I hate to sound cold, but damn this is an interesting example of how organizations learn. One commenter asked &quot;I wonder how many of those hospitals who forbid intubation are doing it to patients with good insurance&quot;<p>For the record, as far as I know this is a horrible thing to suggest. But the overall point, that large organizations have incentives that are many times removed from the actual work being done, is a good one.<p>This kind of conversation facilitation across borders is what the internet was supposed to be doing. I think this is the first time I&#x27;ve seen it working the way we had hoped. What&#x27;s especially interesting to me is that many of the signals we look for in social forums, like &quot;this is just a spam press release&quot;, &quot;nothing new to see&quot;, or &quot;there&#x27;s some ulterior motivation here&quot; voting up or down, etc., are actually counter-indicators and inhibitors of overall progress.</text></comment> | <story><title>UChicago doctors see ‘remarkable’ success using ventilator alternatives</title><url>https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/uchicago-medicine-doctors-see-truly-remarkable-success-using-ventilator-alternatives-to-treat-covid19</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theobeers</author><text>One of the most active figures in this debate has been a New York doctor named Cameron Kyle-Sidell. He frequently posts interesting sources on Twitter:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;cameronks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;cameronks</a></text></comment> |
13,359,433 | 13,357,154 | 1 | 2 | 13,356,318 | train | <story><title>Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/09/atlassian-acquires-trello/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanSrich</author><text>Is Trello really a competitor though? JIRA and Trello couldn&#x27;t be more different.<p>I&#x27;d think Trello and Asana are much closer competitors. JIRA is like an over engineered spaceship with more features than anyone could learn in a lifetime. Comparatively Trello functions more like a Prius. Priuses and spaceships don&#x27;t compete.</text></item><item><author>rb808</author><text>It makes sense mainly because Trello is a competitor to Atlassian and its best to kill it now before it takes too much market share.<p>edit: Yes right now there might not be an exact competitor but in a few years it could easily match everything Jira does.</text></item><item><author>bhouston</author><text>This makes sense. Atlassian is good at making money from its services and it is increasing its overall ecosystem here.<p>Github moves really slow in comparison. I guess Github is more focused, but there are a lot of contrasts between Github and Atlassian, and in terms of making money I think Atlassian is doing a lot better.<p>Has Github acquired anything significant? Github should have acquired Zenhub (which is Trello integrated into Github for the most part) instead of slowing trying to recreate it -- although I guess Github has better code purity if they develop it themselves, but it means they move slower.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>farkas</author><text>We don&#x27;t view JIRA and Trello as competitors.<p>JIRA shines in areas that (a) have workflow and (b) require repeatable processes across a number of people.<p>Once you have 20+ people on a project, you need repeatable processes.<p>In cases like bug tracking, project management, customer service, help desks, HR onboarding and hundreds others you need workflow.<p>Trello shines in areas where you have (a) small teams or (b) require ad-hoc semi-structured data.<p>In small teams, even if repeatable process would help you, it&#x27;s not worth the cost of setting up a system - you achieve it by social means.<p>Trello also has many, many use-cases where you want to start something quick, or personal. In this case it really shines, with near-zero friction to get started.<p>Scott, CEO Atlassian</text></comment> | <story><title>Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/09/atlassian-acquires-trello/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanSrich</author><text>Is Trello really a competitor though? JIRA and Trello couldn&#x27;t be more different.<p>I&#x27;d think Trello and Asana are much closer competitors. JIRA is like an over engineered spaceship with more features than anyone could learn in a lifetime. Comparatively Trello functions more like a Prius. Priuses and spaceships don&#x27;t compete.</text></item><item><author>rb808</author><text>It makes sense mainly because Trello is a competitor to Atlassian and its best to kill it now before it takes too much market share.<p>edit: Yes right now there might not be an exact competitor but in a few years it could easily match everything Jira does.</text></item><item><author>bhouston</author><text>This makes sense. Atlassian is good at making money from its services and it is increasing its overall ecosystem here.<p>Github moves really slow in comparison. I guess Github is more focused, but there are a lot of contrasts between Github and Atlassian, and in terms of making money I think Atlassian is doing a lot better.<p>Has Github acquired anything significant? Github should have acquired Zenhub (which is Trello integrated into Github for the most part) instead of slowing trying to recreate it -- although I guess Github has better code purity if they develop it themselves, but it means they move slower.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matthewmacleod</author><text>I totally agree. Trello is not a competitor to JIRA.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong – I like them both. When I have to plan out personal projects, Trello is great. During the day, we use JIRA. The use cases are different, and the products are both suitable. I&#x27;m madly bemused that people look at the very, very surface layer of the UI (oh look, it has cards in columns!) and assume the products are the same.</text></comment> |
22,560,722 | 22,560,642 | 1 | 3 | 22,560,412 | train | <story><title>Planet is 'way off track' in dealing with climate change, U.N. report says</title><url>https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/multi-agency-report-highlights-increasing-signs-and-impacts-of-climate-change</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jl6</author><text>Can’t help but feel the coronavirus lockdowns are a good trial run for a low carbon world: limited travel, local food and entertainment, less consumption of non-essentials.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>svara</author><text>It&#x27;s also a great demonstration that it&#x27;s really hard to get people to believe that something they can&#x27;t see is real.<p>Coronavirus cases have been growing stably and predictably for weeks. Epidemiologists (and not only they) saw it coming. No panic would have been necessary if calm, decisive action had been taken early on. But somehow the panic seems to be necessary. Normalcy bias is real.<p>These past weeks have been really instructive about collective human behavior, and have me really worried about our ability as a species to address climate change.</text></comment> | <story><title>Planet is 'way off track' in dealing with climate change, U.N. report says</title><url>https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/multi-agency-report-highlights-increasing-signs-and-impacts-of-climate-change</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jl6</author><text>Can’t help but feel the coronavirus lockdowns are a good trial run for a low carbon world: limited travel, local food and entertainment, less consumption of non-essentials.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swebs</author><text>It cut China&#x27;s emissions by 25% and will probably do the same to the rest of the world.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;environment&#x2F;coronavirus-china-co2-climate-crisis-greenhouse-gas-carbon-emissions-coal-a9351436.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;environment&#x2F;coronavirus-china-...</a></text></comment> |
41,432,694 | 41,432,736 | 1 | 3 | 41,432,109 | train | <story><title>Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid</title><url>https://climate.benjames.io/solar-off-grid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>&gt; When there’s enough surplus energy supply from renewables, prices can even go negative. That&#x27;s great news for consumers - who get paid to use energy - but it&#x27;s bad news for renewable generators.<p>That isn&#x27;t correct, it is just bad news for everyone. Sure if there was a <i>sustainable</i> deal that offered negative prices that&#x27;d be good, but in this case it just means the prices when positive will have to go up to cover the overall profits of the energy producers. Negative prices represent waste and it is quite unusual for waste to be good for consumers.<p>Although this is a minor point. The solar revolution is pretty exciting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Angostura</author><text>I disagree that it’s bad news. It gives additional incentives for consumers to get battery systems to go with their solar.<p>I live in the UK where prices go negative during periods of high wind&#x2F;low demand.<p>There are also times where demand is so high that the electricity companies will pay a big premium for consumers who cut their consumption for a couple of hours, or who sell back to the grid, to avoid having to start up reserve coal-fired power stations.<p>I got batteries for my solar without any thought of them being very useful in winter, but in fact they are. I automatically force-charge when prices go negative and when the grid announces there is going to be an emergency need for power (usually a few hours notice), I’ll force charge and then force discharge during the time of need.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;octopus.energy&#x2F;blog&#x2F;farewell-saving-sessions-wrap-up&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;octopus.energy&#x2F;blog&#x2F;farewell-saving-sessions-wrap-up...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid</title><url>https://climate.benjames.io/solar-off-grid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>&gt; When there’s enough surplus energy supply from renewables, prices can even go negative. That&#x27;s great news for consumers - who get paid to use energy - but it&#x27;s bad news for renewable generators.<p>That isn&#x27;t correct, it is just bad news for everyone. Sure if there was a <i>sustainable</i> deal that offered negative prices that&#x27;d be good, but in this case it just means the prices when positive will have to go up to cover the overall profits of the energy producers. Negative prices represent waste and it is quite unusual for waste to be good for consumers.<p>Although this is a minor point. The solar revolution is pretty exciting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewDucker</author><text>Negative pricing will lead to people building storage which can make use of it to charge, and then sell back when prices are positive again. It&#x27;s an excellent signal of opportunity.</text></comment> |
9,094,170 | 9,094,223 | 1 | 3 | 9,094,029 | train | <story><title>Battery power alone can be used to track Android phones</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31587621</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SifJar</author><text>The article mentions that the required permissions are &quot;very common permissions&quot;, and then in the next paragraph says that 179 apps on the Google Play store require those permissions. As of July 2014, there were 1.3 million apps in the app store [1]. That&#x27;s ~0.014% of the apps on the store. Not exactly &quot;very common&quot; in my mind. Although the remark that they are &quot;unlikely to raise suspicion&quot; is valid, especially for the typical consumer, who probably isn&#x27;t reading the permissions anyway.<p>[1] - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play#Android_applications" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Google_Play#Android_application...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Battery power alone can be used to track Android phones</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31587621</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joosters</author><text>Original research paper: <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03182" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1502.03182</a><p>PDF link: <a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03182v1.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1502.03182v1.pdf</a></text></comment> |
11,733,577 | 11,733,292 | 1 | 2 | 11,732,752 | train | <story><title>Exercise Tied to Lower Risk for Some Types of Cancer</title><url>http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/exercise-tied-to-lower-risk-for-13-types-of-cancer/?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fhealth&action=click&contentCollection=health&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>No. This study is confounded and provides no evidence of anything.<p>The problem is that people&#x27;s willingness to exercise depends on their health as much as or more than their health is affected by exercise. Because this study did not involve an intervention (it just pooled a bunch of surveys), it can&#x27;t distinguish between exercise causing reduced cancer risk, or a third variable affecting both.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>I can attest to that. I had weaker health a few years ago (lack of activity mainly) but I could kick a regular schedule of activity to get back on track. An accident broke my health below the self help threshold. When you&#x27;re worried you can&#x27;t jog, even walk, it&#x27;s hard to bootstrap the exercice-health cycle again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Exercise Tied to Lower Risk for Some Types of Cancer</title><url>http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/exercise-tied-to-lower-risk-for-13-types-of-cancer/?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fhealth&action=click&contentCollection=health&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>No. This study is confounded and provides no evidence of anything.<p>The problem is that people&#x27;s willingness to exercise depends on their health as much as or more than their health is affected by exercise. Because this study did not involve an intervention (it just pooled a bunch of surveys), it can&#x27;t distinguish between exercise causing reduced cancer risk, or a third variable affecting both.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>The same could be said of almost any study that tried to show this. It is unethical to design the study in the way you&#x27;re suggesting (i.e. stop people exercising to see if they get cancer).<p>They did however:<p>&gt; Body mass index adjustment modestly attenuated associations for several cancers, but 10 of 13 inverse associations remained statistically significant after this adjustment.<p>So even for two thin people, exercise seems to have helped. I legitimately don&#x27;t see how you could design a study that you&#x27;d be satisfied with.</text></comment> |
40,914,742 | 40,914,965 | 1 | 3 | 40,913,915 | train | <story><title>Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%</title><url>https://noyb.eu/en/microsofts-xandr-grants-gdpr-rights-rate-0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>1oooqooq</author><text>This is the industry standard for advertising. Even way before GDRP!<p>Remember when Verizon was caught &quot;super cookie&quot;ing all their subscribers http requests?<p>What did verizon do? moved the super cookie shenanigans under their subsidiary AOL. Then when AOL got a slap on the wrist too, what verizon did? bought Yahoo and moved the shenanigans there. ...When those tactics where not technically possible anymore it sold all ad subsidiaries for the purchase price.<p>I call that «Regulatory Condoms». It works fine for enforcement that gives warnings before fines.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%</title><url>https://noyb.eu/en/microsofts-xandr-grants-gdpr-rights-rate-0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>botanical</author><text>Companies need to be slapped with a non-negligible percentage fine of revenue. They will learn fast to respect the law, and by extension, people&#x27;s privacy.</text></comment> |
26,363,362 | 26,362,084 | 1 | 3 | 26,360,779 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Relocate.me – get your next tech job abroad</title><url>https://relocate.me</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewstetsenko</author><text>Hello, everyone! It’s Andrew, founder of Relocate.me.<p>In a nutshell, Relocate.me is a one-stop platform for tech professionals who are willing to relocate for work.<p>Since launching Relocate.me on Hacker News over 3 years ago (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15922401" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15922401</a>), a lot has changed, and I’m excited to finally introduce Relocate.me 3.0 with a batch of new features and enhancements:<p>1) Learning center (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;learning-center" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;learning-center</a>): A treasure trove of useful information and practical advice on finding employment abroad.<p>2) Companies (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;companies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;companies</a>): A handpicked list of tech companies hiring internationally; you can filter companies by country.<p>3) Improved search (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;search" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;search</a>)<p>4) Calculators (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;net-pay-calculators" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;net-pay-calculators</a>) to estimate your after-taxes paycheck in 20+ countries<p>5) “Who Wants to be Relocated?” initiative (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;wwbr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;wwbr</a>): A public list of potential tech hires promoted among international recruiters.<p>6) Non-developer jobs with relocation assistance. Including (but not limited to) Product Manager, Design, and Marketing roles.<p>7) Telegram channel (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.me&#x2F;relocateme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.me&#x2F;relocateme</a>): A quick way to keep up to date with new positions as they’re posted, relevant news, and more.<p>Thank you so much for reading this far! Our team will be happy to hear your feedback.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>that_guy_iain</author><text>Legit question, how many people are being relocated currently? I would have thought Corona would have really messed up your flow but I keep getting emails from you guys with jobs so I assume it&#x27;s still happening.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Relocate.me – get your next tech job abroad</title><url>https://relocate.me</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewstetsenko</author><text>Hello, everyone! It’s Andrew, founder of Relocate.me.<p>In a nutshell, Relocate.me is a one-stop platform for tech professionals who are willing to relocate for work.<p>Since launching Relocate.me on Hacker News over 3 years ago (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15922401" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15922401</a>), a lot has changed, and I’m excited to finally introduce Relocate.me 3.0 with a batch of new features and enhancements:<p>1) Learning center (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;learning-center" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;learning-center</a>): A treasure trove of useful information and practical advice on finding employment abroad.<p>2) Companies (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;companies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;companies</a>): A handpicked list of tech companies hiring internationally; you can filter companies by country.<p>3) Improved search (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;search" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;search</a>)<p>4) Calculators (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;net-pay-calculators" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;net-pay-calculators</a>) to estimate your after-taxes paycheck in 20+ countries<p>5) “Who Wants to be Relocated?” initiative (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;wwbr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relocate.me&#x2F;wwbr</a>): A public list of potential tech hires promoted among international recruiters.<p>6) Non-developer jobs with relocation assistance. Including (but not limited to) Product Manager, Design, and Marketing roles.<p>7) Telegram channel (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.me&#x2F;relocateme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.me&#x2F;relocateme</a>): A quick way to keep up to date with new positions as they’re posted, relevant news, and more.<p>Thank you so much for reading this far! Our team will be happy to hear your feedback.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spockz</author><text>I know that there are state level taxes as well in the US. Can this be included in the calculator?<p>Also I wonder what the difference in disposable income would be given something like (typical) health insurance, food prices, and housing per state&#x2F;area</text></comment> |
1,940,098 | 1,940,084 | 1 | 3 | 1,939,962 | train | <story><title>Donate few bucks to Wikipedia (We're all using it on a daily basis, aren't we?)</title><url>http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA1/en/US&utm_source=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=&referrer=</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lwhi</author><text>Commercial pressures present conflicts of interest. No form of media can claim to be truly impartial if advertising is displayed in amongst content.<p>One of the defining features of Wikipedia is absence of advertising - introduce adverts and the brand will lose a great deal of its power.</text></item><item><author>corin_</author><text>Here's my question: what's wrong with advertising?<p>If users don't mind adverts on commercial sites that offer free content, why would they mind it on a not-for-profit site?<p>Don't get me wrong, I'm all for donating to charities in general (and do, regularly), I'm all for donating to Wikipedia (and have done more than once), and I'm all for websites that allow people who donate to disable adverts. But despite having donated to Wikipedia, I'd have no problem with seeing adverts on every page (as long as they're reasonably subtle, and don't consist solely of the cheapest of the cheap adverts, such as "omg you won an ipod lol!!"). In fact, I think I'd prefer seeing normal adverts than the constant reminder that they want donations.<p>"No ads. No agenda. No strings attached."<p>Why does being a "community website" mean they shouldn't use advertising revenue to support their growth?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mseebach</author><text>In theory, yes. In practice, no. A single big donor, or a network of donors, might threaten to withdraw support unless some change is made, in exactly the same way a commercial entity might do it (which is very in a very subtle way, typically no smoking guns).<p>But probably the best shield against pressure: Wikipedia is a property of such a high quality that no single advertiser will ever have larger value than the mass of high quality competitors standing in line to take his place.</text></comment> | <story><title>Donate few bucks to Wikipedia (We're all using it on a daily basis, aren't we?)</title><url>http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA1/en/US&utm_source=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=&referrer=</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lwhi</author><text>Commercial pressures present conflicts of interest. No form of media can claim to be truly impartial if advertising is displayed in amongst content.<p>One of the defining features of Wikipedia is absence of advertising - introduce adverts and the brand will lose a great deal of its power.</text></item><item><author>corin_</author><text>Here's my question: what's wrong with advertising?<p>If users don't mind adverts on commercial sites that offer free content, why would they mind it on a not-for-profit site?<p>Don't get me wrong, I'm all for donating to charities in general (and do, regularly), I'm all for donating to Wikipedia (and have done more than once), and I'm all for websites that allow people who donate to disable adverts. But despite having donated to Wikipedia, I'd have no problem with seeing adverts on every page (as long as they're reasonably subtle, and don't consist solely of the cheapest of the cheap adverts, such as "omg you won an ipod lol!!"). In fact, I think I'd prefer seeing normal adverts than the constant reminder that they want donations.<p>"No ads. No agenda. No strings attached."<p>Why does being a "community website" mean they shouldn't use advertising revenue to support their growth?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mootothemax</author><text>Surely that's a redundant concern? Wikipedia is already open to being edited; companies can and have been caught editing entries relevant to their interests.<p>Now, Wikipedia is not a reliable source, and never will be in its current guise, i.e. with the anyone-can-edit philosophy. It's no bad thing, I love Wikipedia and can spend hours enjoying articles there.<p>Where I'm going with this is that claiming conflict of interest or impartiality problems if advertising is to be introduced, well that just doesn't make sense - there are too many other factors that make Wikipedia unreliable.<p>Personally, I think it's a convenient excuse for an otherwise noble cause: advertising is ugly and intrusive, and in a perfect world it wouldn't be required.</text></comment> |
8,661,389 | 8,661,119 | 1 | 3 | 8,660,994 | train | <story><title>Solving the Mystery of Link Imbalance: A Metastable Failure State at Scale</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/1499322996995183/solving-the-mystery-of-link-imbalance-a-metastable-failure-state-at-scale/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cperciva</author><text><i>The most literal conclusion to draw from this story is that MRU connection pools shouldn’t be used for connections that traverse aggregated links.</i><p>Not just connections which traverse aggregated links. If you&#x27;re load-balancing between multiple database replicas -- or between several S3 endpoints -- this sort of MRU connection pool will cause metastable load imbalances on the targets.<p>What I don&#x27;t understand is why Facebook didn&#x27;t simply fix their MRU pool: Switching from &quot;most recent <i>response received</i>&quot; to &quot;most recent <i>request sent</i>&quot; (out of the links which don&#x27;t have a request already in progress, of course) would have flipped the effect from preferring overloaded links to avoiding them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Solving the Mystery of Link Imbalance: A Metastable Failure State at Scale</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/1499322996995183/solving-the-mystery-of-link-imbalance-a-metastable-failure-state-at-scale/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jxf</author><text>This was a great investigation of what must surely have been a complicated, frustrating, and expensive problem. Awesome writeup.<p>I love reading about post-mortems like this, even if they&#x27;re unlikely to happen at my startup, because the problem-solving techniques that get displayed tend to generalize to things of almost any size.</text></comment> |
27,776,450 | 27,774,359 | 1 | 2 | 27,773,747 | train | <story><title>Phorge: A community-maintained fork of Phabricator</title><url>https://we.phorge.it/source/phorge/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neandrake</author><text>There is an effort working to establish Phorge as a community-maintained fork but it is not yet in a state for announcement&#x2F;release. There&#x27;s still work being done to establish the organization, the fork itself, and the community. Please bear in mind that this is in it&#x27;s infancy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Phorge: A community-maintained fork of Phabricator</title><url>https://we.phorge.it/source/phorge/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the-dude</author><text>Related : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27328404" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27328404</a> ( 1 month ago, 139 comments )<p><i>Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained</i></text></comment> |
10,146,287 | 10,145,854 | 1 | 2 | 10,145,618 | train | <story><title>Atari's “The Book” (1980) [pdf]</title><url>http://pdf.textfiles.com/technical/atari_thebook.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Also Atari related, for those that don&#x27;t know this resource.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atariarchives.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atariarchives.org&#x2F;</a><p>Full of great books about programming the Atari home computers and a time window for the youngsters how we used to code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Atari's “The Book” (1980) [pdf]</title><url>http://pdf.textfiles.com/technical/atari_thebook.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deevious</author><text>Did they know how to write a good manual back then. You&#x27;ve got your soldering primer, guides on how to use test equipment... heck, you can probably apply some of the mechanical knowledge to fix your kitchen sink.</text></comment> |
14,630,808 | 14,630,900 | 1 | 2 | 14,630,650 | train | <story><title>Texas Is Too Windy and Sunny for Old Energy Companies to Make Money</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-20/texas-is-too-windy-and-sunny-for-old-energy-companies-to-make-money</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>It appears we&#x27;re at the inflection point where even natural gas (in addition to coal) is getting pushed out of the generation mix. Good! About time.<p>This may require paying natural gas generators for their ability to quickly throttle to back renewables, but only as a temporary measure until utility scale batteries fall in cost.</text></comment> | <story><title>Texas Is Too Windy and Sunny for Old Energy Companies to Make Money</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-20/texas-is-too-windy-and-sunny-for-old-energy-companies-to-make-money</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidf18</author><text>I wonder what the economics would be without the federal tax incentives for wind and solar. Does anyone know?<p>EDIT: Someone above provided a link that provides the figure I was looking for:<p>&quot;Between 2010 and 2016, subsidies for solar were between 10¢ and 88¢ per kWh and subsidies for wind were between 1.3¢ and 5.7¢ per kWh. Subsidies for coal, natural gas and nuclear are all between 0.05¢ and 0.2¢ per kWh over all years.&quot; [1]<p>I wonder how much of a subsidy there is for LED lighting. A lot of energy goes for incandescent lighting.<p>Also, there should be a lot of subsidies to replace heaters in building burning #6 and #4 fuel oil which is very, very dirty and pollution (NYC where I live banned #6 a few years ago but #4 is allowed to persist until 2030 I think).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;jamesconca&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;why-do-federal-subsidies-make-renewable-energy-so-costly&#x2F;#69da9278128c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;jamesconca&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;why-do-fe...</a></text></comment> |
24,122,931 | 24,121,058 | 1 | 2 | 24,119,838 | train | <story><title>BuckleScript Is Rebranding</title><url>https://reasonml.org/blog/bucklescript-is-rebranding</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gklitt</author><text>I really really want this stack to succeed -- I think it has so much potential. And I&#x27;ve been hoping that some of this confusion would get cleared up.<p>Unfortunately, after reading this blog post I think I&#x27;m even more confused than I was before. Are Reason and Rescript separate projects? It seems like there are now _three_ different syntax options: OCaml, Reason, and ReScript? Even if it&#x27;s a good change in the long run, the lack of clarity is concerning...<p>Seems like it may be more stable to just stick with OCaml syntax and js_of_ocaml [1] for now...<p>Also interesting that OCaml is not mentioned a single time on the new website [2]. I guess they&#x27;re trying to appeal to JS devs and sell it as a new thing, but seems useful to at least be aware that there&#x27;s a connection to an established language?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ocsigen.org&#x2F;js_of_ocaml&#x2F;3.7.0&#x2F;manual&#x2F;overview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ocsigen.org&#x2F;js_of_ocaml&#x2F;3.7.0&#x2F;manual&#x2F;overview</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rescript-lang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;manual&#x2F;latest&#x2F;introduction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rescript-lang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;manual&#x2F;latest&#x2F;introduction</a></text></comment> | <story><title>BuckleScript Is Rebranding</title><url>https://reasonml.org/blog/bucklescript-is-rebranding</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rashkov</author><text>I lucked into a job writing ReasonML (soon to be ReScript) on a React codebase some time late last year, and I&#x27;ve got to say that so far it has been a career highlight for this engineer. Not only did it scratch my itch for functional programming, but I also got to use one of the best type systems around as well, given how this project lives on top of the OCaml compiler.<p>That said, there were definitely some rough spots along the way, but I&#x27;m hopeful that this re-branding and unification of the infrastructure is a step in the right direction.</text></comment> |
12,736,739 | 12,736,742 | 1 | 2 | 12,735,631 | train | <story><title>Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says It Cut His Internet</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/world/europe/julian-assange-embassy.html?partner=IFTTT&_r=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arkitaip</author><text>Is Assange the only one using the wikileaks twitter account? Because it&#x27;s batshit crazy at times <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;heatst.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;wikileaks-posts-and-deletes-anti-semitic-tweet-as-it-does-putins-bidding-for-trump&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;heatst.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;wikileaks-posts-and-deletes-anti...</a></text></item><item><author>untog</author><text>You know the wikileaks Twitter account <i>is</i> Assange, right? I&#x27;m going to wait for a reliable third party report on this one.</text></item><item><author>hammock</author><text>Wikileaks: Multiple US sources tell us John Kerry asked Ecuador to stop Assange from publishing Clinton docs during FARC peace negotiations.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;wikileaks&#x2F;status&#x2F;788369924175441920" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;wikileaks&#x2F;status&#x2F;788369924175441920</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snovv_crash</author><text>If anything, that website you linked is batshit crazy. At least Wikileaks had the sense to delete the tweets.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says It Cut His Internet</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/world/europe/julian-assange-embassy.html?partner=IFTTT&_r=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arkitaip</author><text>Is Assange the only one using the wikileaks twitter account? Because it&#x27;s batshit crazy at times <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;heatst.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;wikileaks-posts-and-deletes-anti-semitic-tweet-as-it-does-putins-bidding-for-trump&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;heatst.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;wikileaks-posts-and-deletes-anti...</a></text></item><item><author>untog</author><text>You know the wikileaks Twitter account <i>is</i> Assange, right? I&#x27;m going to wait for a reliable third party report on this one.</text></item><item><author>hammock</author><text>Wikileaks: Multiple US sources tell us John Kerry asked Ecuador to stop Assange from publishing Clinton docs during FARC peace negotiations.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;wikileaks&#x2F;status&#x2F;788369924175441920" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;wikileaks&#x2F;status&#x2F;788369924175441920</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neves</author><text>The guy is locked with Ecuadorian TV and English food. It is completely plausible that he goes batshit crazy at times. :-)</text></comment> |
32,303,198 | 32,301,815 | 1 | 2 | 32,299,244 | train | <story><title>Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone</title><url>https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-08-01/blockade-australia-technology-bail-conditions-encrypted-apps/101277038</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baazaa</author><text>The entire tradition of thought around natural law and limits on the legitimate scope of the state have simply disappeared in Australia so far as I can tell. Everyone just accepts that the state has absolute sovereignty and it can pass any laws it wants.<p>Commonwealth nations have largely devolved into illiberal elective autocracies with immense power concentrated in the PM&#x27;s offices, minimal parliamentary autonomy (i.e. everyone votes on the party line), and no ideological constraints on how state power is used or abused.</text></item><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>After a discussion with a lawyer friend (not australia, canada, so tangentially related), the &quot;presumption of innocence&quot; that would not obligate this person to have or produce a key for whatever gibberish someone sends to their devices, is what&#x27;s known in legal circles as a &quot;principle of fundamental justice,&quot; and it is not a right that is either absolute or inaliable the way that american rights are set up.<p>One doesn&#x27;t need to agree with the persons cause to recognize this is another extreme overstepping of authority on the part of that government to mandate that the people who communicate with the person subject to this order may also not protect their own commuications from interception, and that the person subject to the order must somehow produce a key for whatever data gets sent to him.<p>Given the cynical application of laws and their moderating charter exceptions in places like Australia and Canada over the last few years, I could forsee a new republican movement emerging in commonwealth countries, as it&#x27;s pretty clear CAN&#x2F;AUS&#x2F;NZ have dispensed with notions of fundamental justice, and have a &quot;so sue me,&quot; approach to legislation and governance, as this stuff is just too stupid to be reasoned with. The language means nothing, the principles mean nothing. It&#x27;s no longer about tech, it&#x27;s about what our options are when the state has demonstrated official contempt for the people it ostensibly serves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aerroon</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised that this is surprising to many people. Australia is a country that has had active media censorship going on for a long time.<p>Eg games work based on a whitelist. You need to get the government&#x27;s permission to be able to publish your game in Australia.<p>Australians accept this. It&#x27;s no wonder to me that they will accept even further concessions on their freedoms.</text></comment> | <story><title>Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone</title><url>https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-08-01/blockade-australia-technology-bail-conditions-encrypted-apps/101277038</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baazaa</author><text>The entire tradition of thought around natural law and limits on the legitimate scope of the state have simply disappeared in Australia so far as I can tell. Everyone just accepts that the state has absolute sovereignty and it can pass any laws it wants.<p>Commonwealth nations have largely devolved into illiberal elective autocracies with immense power concentrated in the PM&#x27;s offices, minimal parliamentary autonomy (i.e. everyone votes on the party line), and no ideological constraints on how state power is used or abused.</text></item><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>After a discussion with a lawyer friend (not australia, canada, so tangentially related), the &quot;presumption of innocence&quot; that would not obligate this person to have or produce a key for whatever gibberish someone sends to their devices, is what&#x27;s known in legal circles as a &quot;principle of fundamental justice,&quot; and it is not a right that is either absolute or inaliable the way that american rights are set up.<p>One doesn&#x27;t need to agree with the persons cause to recognize this is another extreme overstepping of authority on the part of that government to mandate that the people who communicate with the person subject to this order may also not protect their own commuications from interception, and that the person subject to the order must somehow produce a key for whatever data gets sent to him.<p>Given the cynical application of laws and their moderating charter exceptions in places like Australia and Canada over the last few years, I could forsee a new republican movement emerging in commonwealth countries, as it&#x27;s pretty clear CAN&#x2F;AUS&#x2F;NZ have dispensed with notions of fundamental justice, and have a &quot;so sue me,&quot; approach to legislation and governance, as this stuff is just too stupid to be reasoned with. The language means nothing, the principles mean nothing. It&#x27;s no longer about tech, it&#x27;s about what our options are when the state has demonstrated official contempt for the people it ostensibly serves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaylinux</author><text>The state exists to perpetuate itself and its power, unless an outside force acts on it. That used to be the people, but increasingly the &quot;machine&quot; of bureaucracy has overtaken or subsumed democratic politics. It is not only in Australia. Chuck Schumer&#x27;s grave warning sums it up well:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6nXGt6Jnabc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6nXGt6Jnabc</a><p>An elected president who is head of the executive and armed forces which include these intelligence agencies, would be foolish to &quot;take them on&quot;, because they would &quot;get back at him&quot;. The people no longer have the power to determine the way in which they are governed by democratic means (maybe they never did, but I&#x27;m lead to believe that elected politicians used to hold a bit more power a century or two ago). I expect it is a similar situation in Australia, it&#x27;s not really the PM&#x27;s office the holds the real power.</text></comment> |
22,648,842 | 22,647,291 | 1 | 2 | 22,646,300 | train | <story><title>Locked-down lawyers warned Alexa is hearing confidential calls</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-20/locked-down-lawyers-warned-alexa-is-hearing-confidential-calls</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lima</author><text>How so?<p>The ruling is about agents using thermal imaging technology to bust a marijuana plantation, performed from a car on a public street. The court stated that this does not constitute a search, since any random citizen could&#x27;ve done the same thing using commodity equipment.<p>Always on microphones that transmit via the internet (i.e. bugs) have been a commodity for... a few decades? But you still cannot legally bug your neighbor&#x27;s apartment.</text></item><item><author>pdkl95</author><text>Alexa <i>et al</i> are also normalizing &quot;always on microphone that sends audio to a remote business over the internet&quot; <i>technology</i>. According to the bright-line rule from <i>Kyllo v United States</i>[1], when a technology is &quot;in general public use&quot;[2], police no longer need a warrant when they use their own devices based on that technology to see the &quot;details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion&quot;[3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caselaw.findlaw.com&#x2F;us-supreme-court&#x2F;533&#x2F;27.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caselaw.findlaw.com&#x2F;us-supreme-court&#x2F;533&#x2F;27.html</a><p>[2] Used throughout the ruling[1], but especially section II of Justice Stevens&#x27; dissent.<p>[3] The ruling[1], 2nd paragraph</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SilasX</author><text>&gt;Always on microphones that transmit via the internet (i.e. bugs) have been a commodity for... a few decades? But you still cannot legally bug your neighbor&#x27;s apartment.<p>It has not been normal until the last few years for people to <i>typically</i> have an Alexa-like device that is always listening for the &quot;I&#x27;m about to make a request&quot; signal, which frequently gets turned on by accident.<p>It&#x27;s not ridiculous that someone might conclude in the future, &quot;if you&#x27;re in someone&#x27;s house with such a device, you should reasonably expect that some part of your conversation might get sent to the third party&quot;, which would mean a diminishing of the right to such privacy in 4th amendment jurisprudence.<p>And frankly, the whole concept of using voice to activate it is reckless. It is unavoidable to have significant false positives. It should be done with a non-audio signal that can&#x27;t be faked (up to the limits of modern crypto), like an authenticated EM signal to turn on the listening.</text></comment> | <story><title>Locked-down lawyers warned Alexa is hearing confidential calls</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-20/locked-down-lawyers-warned-alexa-is-hearing-confidential-calls</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lima</author><text>How so?<p>The ruling is about agents using thermal imaging technology to bust a marijuana plantation, performed from a car on a public street. The court stated that this does not constitute a search, since any random citizen could&#x27;ve done the same thing using commodity equipment.<p>Always on microphones that transmit via the internet (i.e. bugs) have been a commodity for... a few decades? But you still cannot legally bug your neighbor&#x27;s apartment.</text></item><item><author>pdkl95</author><text>Alexa <i>et al</i> are also normalizing &quot;always on microphone that sends audio to a remote business over the internet&quot; <i>technology</i>. According to the bright-line rule from <i>Kyllo v United States</i>[1], when a technology is &quot;in general public use&quot;[2], police no longer need a warrant when they use their own devices based on that technology to see the &quot;details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion&quot;[3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caselaw.findlaw.com&#x2F;us-supreme-court&#x2F;533&#x2F;27.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caselaw.findlaw.com&#x2F;us-supreme-court&#x2F;533&#x2F;27.html</a><p>[2] Used throughout the ruling[1], but especially section II of Justice Stevens&#x27; dissent.<p>[3] The ruling[1], 2nd paragraph</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdkl95</author><text>&gt; The court stated that this does not constitute a search<p>From the court&#x27;s opinion (the above [1]):<p>&gt;&gt; ... obtaining by sense-enhancing technology any information regarding the home&#x27;s interior that could not otherwise have been obtained without physical &quot;intrusion into a constitutionally protected area,&quot; constitutes a search--at least where (as here) the technology in question is not in general public use.<p>&gt;&gt; Based on this criterion, the information obtained by the thermal imager in this case was the product of a search.<p>&gt;&gt; the imaging in this case was an unlawful search</text></comment> |
14,607,573 | 14,606,461 | 1 | 2 | 14,602,674 | train | <story><title>Twist – Mindful Team Communication</title><url>https://twistapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mistaken</author><text>Hmm. It seems that these chat applications are more and more becoming like a polished webmail system. Now they&#x27;ve introduced threads, it&#x27;s searchable forever, you can mail erm. I mean send messages to individuals or even groups. This new technology is amazing. Seriously there is nothing wrong with using e-mail (apart from the dated protocol) and for knowledge sharing your team is better of with some kind of wiki with organized information.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>&gt; Seriously there is nothing wrong with using e-mail (apart from the dated protocol) and for knowledge sharing your team is better of with some kind of wiki with organized information.<p>I&#x27;m the co-founder of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fwdeveryone.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fwdeveryone.com</a>, which implements the same sort of functionality on top of email. This way you can capture both the knowledge created within your organization, and also conversations between your coworkers and people outside your business. There is no new client to adopt, and your data already comes pre-exported into your gmail or google apps account. And if you have a conversation you&#x27;d like to share publicly then we provide tools, like requesting permission and redacting sensitive info, to make this easy also, e.g.: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Connecticut&#x2F;comments&#x2F;65kbok&#x2F;good_hikes_for_southern_ct&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Connecticut&#x2F;comments&#x2F;65kbok&#x2F;good_hi...</a><p>Wikis are great, but maintaining them is basically a full time job, which is why they tend to be terrible and out of date. And even in cases where you have a PM maintaining your wiki full time, the majority of organizational knowledge is still locked up in email. Given that the amount of personal non-spam email sent every day is something like 100x the total size of Wikipedia, it seems unlikely that chat programs, email replacement solutions, or wikis can ever really be a complete solution.<p>Also, everyone already knows how to write or respond to an email, but many people within organizations don&#x27;t know how to do simple things like making an account on a website. It sounds like a trivial problem, but we&#x27;ve found that having a system where everyone can contribute without having to learn anything new is actually a big win.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twist – Mindful Team Communication</title><url>https://twistapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mistaken</author><text>Hmm. It seems that these chat applications are more and more becoming like a polished webmail system. Now they&#x27;ve introduced threads, it&#x27;s searchable forever, you can mail erm. I mean send messages to individuals or even groups. This new technology is amazing. Seriously there is nothing wrong with using e-mail (apart from the dated protocol) and for knowledge sharing your team is better of with some kind of wiki with organized information.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>There is a simple reason that email is not a good team communication mechanism, and that is onboarding new members and capturing collective memory.<p>A threaded store and forward system works better for that as it allows new participants (members of the team) to read back in the historical documents about what happened before and what outcomes were created.<p>The three pillars of communication appear to me to be:<p>Time sensitive; communication of the specific moment (calendars are included here)<p>Evolved knowledge; communications of the group which represent the evolution of the group understanding of processes, challenges, and solutions.<p>Directive&#x2F;Command; communications which direct individual or group action and recover group status.<p>The typical solutions fall into &#x27;chat&#x2F;calendar&#x27;, &#x27;news&#x2F;bulleitin board&#x27;, and &#x27;email&#x27;</text></comment> |
39,868,832 | 39,868,085 | 1 | 3 | 39,867,632 | train | <story><title>Banner blindness</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saghm</author><text>I feel like a similar thing happens in &quot;real life&quot; sometimes, not just on websites. Back in high school, I used to volunteer at an animal shelter, and we had an area out back where we&#x27;d walk the dogs or let them run around in one of a few fenced in areas throughout the day so they could go to the bathroom and get some exercise. The door leading out here was located in one of the rooms with dog kennels, so people coming to potentially adopt a dog would walk through this room a lot, and often they&#x27;d try to walk out back and watch or participate with the volunteers and staff taking some of the dogs out. We&#x27;d ask them politely to go back inside because they aren&#x27;t allowed out there and point out the very large sign in large font on the door saying this, and every time they&#x27;d always act very surprised because they claimed not to have seen it. I&#x27;m sure some people were just feigning ignorance because it seemed easier, but the sheer number of people claiming it makes it believable that at least _some_ of them genuinely didn&#x27;t notice; they saw a door, they wanted to go through, and they opened it without processing the words right in front of their face.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petsfed</author><text>There are situations where its hard to understand <i>how</i> even the non-verbal warnings didn&#x27;t latch though.<p>There&#x27;s &quot;no unauthorized personnel&quot;, and then there&#x27;s &quot;Fire door, alarm will sound&quot;.<p>In college, i worked at a university recreation center, and the desk I worked at was about 15 feet from a fire door. It sat somewhat between the weight room and the men&#x27;s locker room, so virtually all male customers walked past this specific, well marked, fire door during their visit. And about 2-3 times a week, while I was working, somebody would finish up their workout and just push that door open and walk out. And every time, they&#x27;d look thunderstruck that the alarm did in fact sound.<p>I eventually dropped all pretense of understanding that they were on autopilot, and began commenting as I deactivated and reactivated the alarm AGAIN &quot;I thought universities required students be able to read&quot;. Only one person ever got short with me over that, and all I had to do was point at the letters that were bigger than their head, directly at eye level, 18 inches from their face, while they pushed the door open.</text></comment> | <story><title>Banner blindness</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saghm</author><text>I feel like a similar thing happens in &quot;real life&quot; sometimes, not just on websites. Back in high school, I used to volunteer at an animal shelter, and we had an area out back where we&#x27;d walk the dogs or let them run around in one of a few fenced in areas throughout the day so they could go to the bathroom and get some exercise. The door leading out here was located in one of the rooms with dog kennels, so people coming to potentially adopt a dog would walk through this room a lot, and often they&#x27;d try to walk out back and watch or participate with the volunteers and staff taking some of the dogs out. We&#x27;d ask them politely to go back inside because they aren&#x27;t allowed out there and point out the very large sign in large font on the door saying this, and every time they&#x27;d always act very surprised because they claimed not to have seen it. I&#x27;m sure some people were just feigning ignorance because it seemed easier, but the sheer number of people claiming it makes it believable that at least _some_ of them genuinely didn&#x27;t notice; they saw a door, they wanted to go through, and they opened it without processing the words right in front of their face.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bagels</author><text>There are so many signs that everyone encounters everyday that are of no consequence. Everyone develops the habit of not reading them.</text></comment> |
21,535,773 | 21,534,180 | 1 | 3 | 21,533,799 | train | <story><title>How we built Uber Engineering's highest query-per-second service using Go (2016)</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/go-geofence/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>woeirua</author><text>This is a very inefficient implementation. Really, just poor quality work overall, as anyone with even a basic understanding of spatial indexing would know that an R-tree would be many times faster, as illustrated here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@buckhx&#x2F;unwinding-uber-s-most-efficient-service-406413c5871d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@buckhx&#x2F;unwinding-uber-s-most-efficient-s...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How we built Uber Engineering's highest query-per-second service using Go (2016)</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/go-geofence/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scarejunba</author><text>There&#x27;s a famous &#x27;rebuttal&#x27; post to this here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@buckhx&#x2F;unwinding-uber-s-most-efficient-service-406413c5871d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@buckhx&#x2F;unwinding-uber-s-most-efficient-s...</a></text></comment> |
19,394,485 | 19,394,133 | 1 | 2 | 19,392,635 | train | <story><title>US to build six nuclear power plants in India</title><url>https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/build-nuclear-power-plants-india-190314072408714.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dv_dt</author><text>It&#x27;s a trope that Nuclear is failing because of fearmongering. Nuclear is uneconomical, especially with renewable energy dropping in cost consistently. Is France, the long time operator of one of the largest fleets, afraid of nuclear - I think it is very experienced at managing nuclear, both old gen and the very newest gen reactors. And yet this article:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-12-10&#x2F;french-power-costs-will-rise-if-renewables-are-sidestepped" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-12-10&#x2F;french-po...</a><p>France will save 39 billion euros ($44.5 billion) if it refrains from building 15 new nuclear plants by 2060, and bets instead on renewable energy sources to replace its all its aging atomic facilities, a government agency said.<p>France should spend 1.28 trillion euros over the next four decades, mostly on clean power production and storage capacities, networks, and imports, according to a report from the country’s environment ministry. If it does this, France would progressively shut down its 58 atomic plants and renewable energy would comprise 95 percent of its electricity output by 2060, up from 17 percent last year</text></item><item><author>Alupis</author><text>&gt; I’ll admire it when the fuel is loaded and the generators spin up<p>Meanwhile, the United States continues to shut down Nuclear Reactors and prevent modern constructions out of irrational fearmongering.<p>At least India recognizes the benefits of Nuclear Power...</text></item><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>I’ll admire it when the fuel is loaded and the generators spin up. Until then, it’s PR, not energy policy.<p>Aspiration alone is no different than failure.</text></item><item><author>elsonrodriguez</author><text>&gt; India plans to triple its nuclear capacity by 2024 to wean Asia&#x27;s third-largest economy off polluting fossil fuels.<p>One has to admire the no-nonsense problem solving happening here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endorphone</author><text>&quot;It&#x27;s a trope that Nuclear is failing because of fearmongering.&quot;<p>I think it&#x27;s a large scale astroturfing effort by the nuclear industry (which is huge, with a very small number of players) and the useful rubes who play along.<p>Nuclear may be a necessary part of the grid mix, but the panacea presented has never remotely been close to reality -- every build takes much longer than promised, and always, with 100% certainty, costs billions more than planned. Every build has maintenance that costs multiples of the claims, operation that is far more expensive, and with waste products that there is still no viable solution for, with an eternity of costs dragging them down. And nuclear only exists because the public subsidizes it by eschewing the need for real insurance (which would be prohibitively expensive otherwise).<p>In every economic sense nuclear has been an enormous boondoggle, and they stopped making them because every energy provider got wise. This has nothing to do with fearmongering or some sort of ignorant public -- quite the contrary, the overwhelming public sentiment had no problem with nuclear -- though that claim frequently appears. It&#x27;s bizarre.</text></comment> | <story><title>US to build six nuclear power plants in India</title><url>https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/build-nuclear-power-plants-india-190314072408714.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dv_dt</author><text>It&#x27;s a trope that Nuclear is failing because of fearmongering. Nuclear is uneconomical, especially with renewable energy dropping in cost consistently. Is France, the long time operator of one of the largest fleets, afraid of nuclear - I think it is very experienced at managing nuclear, both old gen and the very newest gen reactors. And yet this article:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-12-10&#x2F;french-power-costs-will-rise-if-renewables-are-sidestepped" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-12-10&#x2F;french-po...</a><p>France will save 39 billion euros ($44.5 billion) if it refrains from building 15 new nuclear plants by 2060, and bets instead on renewable energy sources to replace its all its aging atomic facilities, a government agency said.<p>France should spend 1.28 trillion euros over the next four decades, mostly on clean power production and storage capacities, networks, and imports, according to a report from the country’s environment ministry. If it does this, France would progressively shut down its 58 atomic plants and renewable energy would comprise 95 percent of its electricity output by 2060, up from 17 percent last year</text></item><item><author>Alupis</author><text>&gt; I’ll admire it when the fuel is loaded and the generators spin up<p>Meanwhile, the United States continues to shut down Nuclear Reactors and prevent modern constructions out of irrational fearmongering.<p>At least India recognizes the benefits of Nuclear Power...</text></item><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>I’ll admire it when the fuel is loaded and the generators spin up. Until then, it’s PR, not energy policy.<p>Aspiration alone is no different than failure.</text></item><item><author>elsonrodriguez</author><text>&gt; India plans to triple its nuclear capacity by 2024 to wean Asia&#x27;s third-largest economy off polluting fossil fuels.<p>One has to admire the no-nonsense problem solving happening here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>I have issues using French costings because I can&#x27;t read the primary sources, and there are a lot of stupid environmentalists out there who misrepresent the costs. I&#x27;m going to commit the same sin and point out that people are willing to claim &#x27;renewables in Germany are pulling down wholesale prices!&#x27; and ignore the fact that their retail prices are amongst the highest in Europe because they are charging a massive renewable-support tariff.<p>The experience in Australia is nobody has considered nuclear because one political party (labour) has historically had a policy of banning the technology. The economics of the costs have never been tested because of the hysterical response to radiation risk. I suspect if it was regulated to the same safety standards as solar it would be very cost-competitive indeed.</text></comment> |
20,708,950 | 20,708,737 | 1 | 2 | 20,705,755 | train | <story><title>Hedonometer</title><url>https://hedonometer.org/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>furyofantares</author><text>I’ve found myself really wanting this, but for the impossible-to-gather complement of the data — how are people doing when they aren’t consuming social media and news media?<p>I find myself often wondering: is the whole world anxious and confused and sad right now? Or maybe just my country? Or maybe just highly-online folks? Or maybe just my bubble?<p>Because as far as I can tell, conditions in the world are better than ever before but I have all these signals telling me that I’m totally wrong about it: I’m surrounded by fear and anger and depression. But I don’t know how to calibrate at all, I have infinite information available to me and no way to sift through it, and the global marketplace of information seems to mean that anything that attracts attention is either highly biased or a statistical outlier or is otherwise just taking advantage of some human bias that makes it sensational enough to attract eyeballs and spread.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>&gt; conditions in the world are better than ever before but I have all these signals telling me that I’m totally wrong about it: I’m surrounded by fear and anger and depression<p>These are mostly orthogonal, no matter the scale. &quot;Fear and anger and depression&quot; are much more personality traits determined by genetics and raising, than they are reflections of how pleasant or unpleasant one&#x27;s life is lately.<p>Due to hedonic adaptation (a.k.a. the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hedonic_treadmill#Happiness_set_point" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hedonic_treadmill#Happiness_se...</a>), people mostly act how they act no matter what their environment is currently like. Short, sharp changes (like Christmas, as seen on the Hedonometer site) can make large numbers of people temporarily feel something strongly enough to show up statistically; but long-term environmental states (e.g. recessions, famines, wars) do not cause long-term statistical shifts in reporting on emotional scales. People get used to things, and revert to their emotional set-points.<p>In other words, a great world and a horrible world would be indistinguishable when viewed through the lens of &quot;how happy people are.&quot; You can&#x27;t get global utility from global happiness.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hedonometer</title><url>https://hedonometer.org/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>furyofantares</author><text>I’ve found myself really wanting this, but for the impossible-to-gather complement of the data — how are people doing when they aren’t consuming social media and news media?<p>I find myself often wondering: is the whole world anxious and confused and sad right now? Or maybe just my country? Or maybe just highly-online folks? Or maybe just my bubble?<p>Because as far as I can tell, conditions in the world are better than ever before but I have all these signals telling me that I’m totally wrong about it: I’m surrounded by fear and anger and depression. But I don’t know how to calibrate at all, I have infinite information available to me and no way to sift through it, and the global marketplace of information seems to mean that anything that attracts attention is either highly biased or a statistical outlier or is otherwise just taking advantage of some human bias that makes it sensational enough to attract eyeballs and spread.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noxToken</author><text>&gt;<i>Because as far as I can tell, conditions in the world are better than ever before but I have all these signals telling me that I’m totally wrong about it: I’m surrounded by fear and anger and depression.</i><p>I have a hypothesis comprised of two ideas.<p>First, people have been encouraged more than ever to be expressive of their feeling and emotional states. That&#x27;s the same reason there&#x27;s a lot of self-deprecating humor with Millennials and Zoomers: it&#x27;s a way to publicly cope with how you feel while also signalling to others that while everything isn&#x27;t perfectly alright, let&#x27;s laugh about it.<p>Second, people reacting to current events expresses feelings towards a particular thing. It is not necessarily an overall indicator of mood or mental health. I&#x27;m happy that it&#x27;s my birthday. I&#x27;m upset that the other team won the championship. I&#x27;m sad that my grandmother died. Those things tend to be temporary emotions. I&#x27;m personally am upset with a lot of things the current US administration does, but it does not reflect my overall status. As I&#x27;ve seen explained: you can cure being alone by leaving your room and taking a stroll in a park; you can be lonely while surrounded by friends and family at your own birthday party.</text></comment> |
19,789,211 | 19,788,812 | 1 | 2 | 19,783,650 | train | <story><title>I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)</title><url>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/standardized-tests-are-so-bad-i-cant-answer-these_b_586d5517e4b0c3539e80c341</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>segmondy</author><text>Those classes are all about conformity. It&#x27;s about learning how to play the game of life and not going against the grain. &quot;smart students&quot; learn to read their teachers and know how to feedback the expected answers even if they don&#x27;t agree or believe in it. A lesson that&#x27;s very much needed in life.<p>A lot have not learned this lesson and this is why many of us on this site still marvel at the bullshit companies raising millions and wondering HTF! Because those &quot;smart founders&quot; learned how to feed BS that their audience expected back to them.<p>I learned this lesson when I took humanities, it was so stupid, but I knew exactly what the teacher wanted to hear when we studied architectures &amp; paintings. It was all subjective and her own opinion. I fed her back her crap and I passed the class.<p>If you haven&#x27;t learned this yet, it&#x27;s not too late. The world is full on chicken shit.</text></item><item><author>sametmax</author><text>I always though how silly it was for teachers to pretend they got the correct answer in a text analysis of a century old author. Apparently it&#x27;s even true for authors that are still alive.<p>Some things seemed so far fetched, so random, so made up. And yet it was supposed to be _the_ right answer. When I offered another one, even knowing the official one but disagreeing, I was graded as failing.<p>Hell, I&#x27;m pretty certain most writers just wrote something, and never though about it more. Not all of them are pondering, rewriting every line. And even the ones that do don&#x27;t necessarily do it for the result the teacher expects.<p>And as a kid, you certainly can&#x27;t say a classic author is not interesting. You can&#x27;t say the text is boring, that you don&#x27;t see talent in it, that you didn&#x27;t learn anything from it. It has been validated by society, hence it&#x27;s good. Now you have to say why you think it is, even if you don&#x27;t. Actually you have to say what you know what the status quo is, which means repeating something you read elsewhere instead of forming a opinion from that and what you think. The opposite of what&#x27;s school is supposed to teach.<p>We wonder why fake news and bullshit work ? It&#x27;s because we teach kids to repeat popular opinions and make up things because they look good. We teach them that not only there is a price to pay for not doing that, but that we are ok with being the ones making them pay it.<p>People that felt like that usually went the science road. It&#x27;s not a bad thing, but it&#x27;s a positive feedback loop. It means fields in desperate needs of honesty and pragmatism are only welcoming bullshiters and conformists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jknoepfler</author><text>I disagree entirely. Traditional humanities courses are in general about learning intellectual history, contemporary thinking, and critical thinking.<p>Mistaking the worst-case for the central tendency is a classic fallacy that is easy to fall into when expressing contempt.<p>Bullshit companies don&#x27;t raise millions of dollars because people study poetry or art history. They seem to raise millions of dollars because there&#x27;s a long tail of bad startups and a long tail of bad investment decisions, and the intersection of those can be cherry-picked to create the illusion that &quot;the world is full of chicken shit&quot;.<p>The world does indeed contain some chicken shit, but chicken shit is not the central tendency of the world. Terrible startups get funding less frequently than good ones. Good technical ideas often raise millions of dollars and thrive, but sometimes they fail despite their merits. Sometimes &quot;chicken shit&quot; succeeds, sometimes good ideas fail, but it&#x27;s foolish to mistake the exception for the rule.<p>But again, all this has very little to do with poetry.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)</title><url>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/standardized-tests-are-so-bad-i-cant-answer-these_b_586d5517e4b0c3539e80c341</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>segmondy</author><text>Those classes are all about conformity. It&#x27;s about learning how to play the game of life and not going against the grain. &quot;smart students&quot; learn to read their teachers and know how to feedback the expected answers even if they don&#x27;t agree or believe in it. A lesson that&#x27;s very much needed in life.<p>A lot have not learned this lesson and this is why many of us on this site still marvel at the bullshit companies raising millions and wondering HTF! Because those &quot;smart founders&quot; learned how to feed BS that their audience expected back to them.<p>I learned this lesson when I took humanities, it was so stupid, but I knew exactly what the teacher wanted to hear when we studied architectures &amp; paintings. It was all subjective and her own opinion. I fed her back her crap and I passed the class.<p>If you haven&#x27;t learned this yet, it&#x27;s not too late. The world is full on chicken shit.</text></item><item><author>sametmax</author><text>I always though how silly it was for teachers to pretend they got the correct answer in a text analysis of a century old author. Apparently it&#x27;s even true for authors that are still alive.<p>Some things seemed so far fetched, so random, so made up. And yet it was supposed to be _the_ right answer. When I offered another one, even knowing the official one but disagreeing, I was graded as failing.<p>Hell, I&#x27;m pretty certain most writers just wrote something, and never though about it more. Not all of them are pondering, rewriting every line. And even the ones that do don&#x27;t necessarily do it for the result the teacher expects.<p>And as a kid, you certainly can&#x27;t say a classic author is not interesting. You can&#x27;t say the text is boring, that you don&#x27;t see talent in it, that you didn&#x27;t learn anything from it. It has been validated by society, hence it&#x27;s good. Now you have to say why you think it is, even if you don&#x27;t. Actually you have to say what you know what the status quo is, which means repeating something you read elsewhere instead of forming a opinion from that and what you think. The opposite of what&#x27;s school is supposed to teach.<p>We wonder why fake news and bullshit work ? It&#x27;s because we teach kids to repeat popular opinions and make up things because they look good. We teach them that not only there is a price to pay for not doing that, but that we are ok with being the ones making them pay it.<p>People that felt like that usually went the science road. It&#x27;s not a bad thing, but it&#x27;s a positive feedback loop. It means fields in desperate needs of honesty and pragmatism are only welcoming bullshiters and conformists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&gt; It was all subjective and her own opinion. I fed her back her crap and I passed the class.<p>I had an English class I thought was like this. I generally tried not to do that unless I had to, but given this English teacher had given me a D and C- on the first two essays (which is all we were graded on), I decided for the third essay I would get as much help as possible directly from her to see exactly what she wanted and try to provide exactly that, since she obviously didn&#x27;t want <i>my</i> opinion. By the third visit during her office hours, she had very little feedback and thought it looked good. I got a C+. Visiting her afterwards I had her review the essay to give me pointers on what I could have done better. Her exact words, which I remember to this day, were &quot;all I can say is it doesn&#x27;t feel authentic.&quot;<p>That class broke me on the subject of English. It was the last required English class for my major, and I made sure not to take another elective in English (and I rather liked the subject before that). Sometimes you&#x27;re damned if you do, damned if you don&#x27;t.</text></comment> |
36,787,994 | 36,787,020 | 1 | 2 | 36,786,407 | train | <story><title>GPT-4 is getting worse over time, not better</title><url>https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1681614284613099520</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phillipcarter</author><text>The linked twitter account is an AI influencer, so take whatever is written with a grain of salt. Their goal is to get clicks and views by saying controversial things.<p>This topic has come up before, and my hypothesis is still that GPT-4 hasn&#x27;t gotten worse, it&#x27;s just that the magic has worn off as we&#x27;ve used this tech. Studies to evaluate it have gotten better and cleaned up mistakes in the past.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r3trohack3r</author><text>I don’t believe this is true. It’s possible I was blinded by the light, but my programming tasks were previously (during the early access program) being handled by GPT-4 regularly and now they aren’t. I’ve also seen many anecdotes from engineers who had exceptionally early access before GPT-4 was public knowledge.<p>The GPT-4 I use now feels like a shadow of the GPT-4 I used during the early access program. GPT-4, back then, ported dirbuster to POSIX compliant multi-threaded C by name only. It required three prompts, roughly:<p>* “port dirbuster to POSIX compliant c”<p>* “that’s great! You’re almost there, but wordlists are not prefixed with a &#x2F;, you’ll need to add that yourself. Can you generate a diff updating the file with the fix?”<p>* “This is pretty slow, can we make it more aggressive at scanning?”<p>It helped me write a daemon for FreeBSD that accepted jails definitions as a declarative manifest and managed them in a diff-reconciliation loop kubernetes style. It implemented a binpacking algorithm to fit an arbitrary number of randomly sized images onto a single sheet of A1 paper.<p>Most programming tasks I threw at it, it could work its way through with a little guidance if it could fit in a prompt.<p>Now, it’s basically worthless at helping me with programming tasks beyond trivial problems.<p>Folks who had early access before it was public have commented on how exceptional it was back then. But also how terrifyingly unaligned it was. And the more they aligned the model with acceptable social behavior, the worse the model performed. Alignment goals like “don’t help people plan mass killings” seem to cause regressions in the models performance.<p>I wouldn’t dismiss these comments. If they’re true, it means there is a hyper intelligent early GPT-4 model sitting on a HDD somewhere that dwarfs what we’ve seen publicly. A poorly aligned model that’s down to help no matter what your request is.</text></comment> | <story><title>GPT-4 is getting worse over time, not better</title><url>https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1681614284613099520</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phillipcarter</author><text>The linked twitter account is an AI influencer, so take whatever is written with a grain of salt. Their goal is to get clicks and views by saying controversial things.<p>This topic has come up before, and my hypothesis is still that GPT-4 hasn&#x27;t gotten worse, it&#x27;s just that the magic has worn off as we&#x27;ve used this tech. Studies to evaluate it have gotten better and cleaned up mistakes in the past.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majkinetor</author><text>So the original paper from Stanford and Berkley is also linked to this AI influencer? I am really amazed by this kind of dismissal. Its totally irrelevant who posted the info and how framed it is, as long as you have access to the source.</text></comment> |
25,521,500 | 25,520,670 | 1 | 2 | 25,519,718 | train | <story><title>Interview advice that got me offers</title><url>https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/the-interviewing-advice-no-one-shares/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkachowski</author><text>Do you find that recruiters will typically give you a salary range beyond &quot;competitive&quot; before you&#x27;ve started the interview process?</text></item><item><author>klenwell</author><text>One additional tip on recruiters: have a cheat sheet ready (web page or public Google doc) that answers the basic questions they&#x27;ll have for you and makes clear your expectations.<p>Here&#x27;s the info I ask them to provide:<p>- Job Title and Salary<p>- Job Description<p>- Company Overview and Location<p>- Steps in Hiring Process<p>Whenever I&#x27;m emailed by a recruiter, I politely thank them for reaching out, paste the link to the cheat sheet, and invite them to review it and write back if they still think I&#x27;m a good match. It quickly separates the professionals from the wannabes. (You usually don&#x27;t hear back from the wannabes.) The ones who do write back often thank me for it.<p>I&#x27;m pretty cynical when it comes to recruiters. So I find it interesting that 3 of my last 4 jobs have come through one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>908B64B197</author><text>The serious ones do.<p>There are a lot of recruiters on the market. But it&#x27;s really no different than the market for lawyers; the median lawyer is a very poor man but the average lawyer is rich.<p>If they can&#x27;t put a number on the table, they are probably one of those that tries to run a volume game, which I think is a bad approach for engineering. Basically spamming and not giving any info until they get their quotas.<p>The good ones want you to get hired at a good price because they are often paid a commission on your salary. And the great ones want to keep in touch so they can cash out again once you get bored with your current job. But the spammy one will have moved on to selling used cars at this point.</text></comment> | <story><title>Interview advice that got me offers</title><url>https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/the-interviewing-advice-no-one-shares/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkachowski</author><text>Do you find that recruiters will typically give you a salary range beyond &quot;competitive&quot; before you&#x27;ve started the interview process?</text></item><item><author>klenwell</author><text>One additional tip on recruiters: have a cheat sheet ready (web page or public Google doc) that answers the basic questions they&#x27;ll have for you and makes clear your expectations.<p>Here&#x27;s the info I ask them to provide:<p>- Job Title and Salary<p>- Job Description<p>- Company Overview and Location<p>- Steps in Hiring Process<p>Whenever I&#x27;m emailed by a recruiter, I politely thank them for reaching out, paste the link to the cheat sheet, and invite them to review it and write back if they still think I&#x27;m a good match. It quickly separates the professionals from the wannabes. (You usually don&#x27;t hear back from the wannabes.) The ones who do write back often thank me for it.<p>I&#x27;m pretty cynical when it comes to recruiters. So I find it interesting that 3 of my last 4 jobs have come through one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klenwell</author><text>Yes. My cheat sheet includes a &quot;Minimum base salary&quot; bullet point that is much higher than my walk-away number. This anchors the discussion.<p>I find the recruiters who get back to me are pretty open and transparent. If not, that&#x27;s a sign they&#x27;re probably not well connected with the company and may even simply be front-running a listing they found on a job site.<p>On preview: what @kortilla said. I don&#x27;t find it limiting since it&#x27;s a number I would be happy accepting (all other things being acceptable). I&#x27;m not out to maximize my salary. I want to maximize my well-being.</text></comment> |
4,705,118 | 4,705,057 | 1 | 2 | 4,704,898 | train | <story><title>Rob Pike: Go at Google</title><url>http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.slide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tikhonj</author><text>What annoys me a little bit about Go (and other projects similarly adherent to "worse is better") is the implied dichotomy between "research" and making "programming lives better". Do they think the point of Haskell isn't to make programming easier? That's what most of the research into the language is <i>exactly</i> about! This isn't just about Haskell either: most other PL research is also about making programming lives easier. And Go ignores essentially all of it.<p>Now, there is even nothing strictly wrong about ignoring research like that. It's just annoying how they <i>revel</i> in ignoring all recent progress in the field.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>Different software communities have different opinions on what makes life better for programmers.<p>As far as I can see, programming language researchers are just a subset of those communities with their own sets of beliefs. On average researchers are much smarter and better educated than most programmers. However it is likely that the majority of the smartest and best educated people are NOT in academia. (Before doubting that, remember there is an eternal brain drain of top people from academia to industry for the simple reason that industry pays more.)<p>In the case of the developers of Go, we are talking about people who I believe to be smarter than the vast majority of programming language researchers, and who _definitely_ have more experience around large software systems. They have come to different opinions about what makes that kind of development work. People like Ken Thompson and Rob Pike might not be right, but it would be unwise to assume that they are necessarily wrong simply because they disagree with a bunch of programming language researchers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rob Pike: Go at Google</title><url>http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.slide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tikhonj</author><text>What annoys me a little bit about Go (and other projects similarly adherent to "worse is better") is the implied dichotomy between "research" and making "programming lives better". Do they think the point of Haskell isn't to make programming easier? That's what most of the research into the language is <i>exactly</i> about! This isn't just about Haskell either: most other PL research is also about making programming lives easier. And Go ignores essentially all of it.<p>Now, there is even nothing strictly wrong about ignoring research like that. It's just annoying how they <i>revel</i> in ignoring all recent progress in the field.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cageface</author><text>Haskell is an elegant language but Haskell fans will be much more effective advocates of the language if they admit that it's conceptually very difficult for most programmers to grasp. Some of the most experienced and capable programmers I've ever known have struggled to get their head around Haskell, and I don't buy the argument that it's only because their minds have been poisoned by overexposure to other languages.<p>Haskell is important and I'm glad it exists but I think Go has a much better chance of become a plausible alternative to Java and C++ and perhaps Python in most programming shops.</text></comment> |
16,208,635 | 16,208,452 | 1 | 2 | 16,207,089 | train | <story><title>Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/22/nan-goldin-interview-us-opioid-epidemic-heroin-addict-oxycontin-sackler-family</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kjgkjhfkjf</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it is appropriate to blame doctors in the US for this. She was initially prescribed the drug in Berlin. The article mentions that she was in a high-risk group that should not be prescribed the drug, but it is likely that the European doctor was legitimately unaware of that.<p>&quot;When, back in New York, doctors refused to supply her any more, she turned to the black market, and to cheaper hard street drugs whenever she ran out of money.&quot;<p>I think this person should take responsibility for her own mistakes, rather than trying to blame them on other people.</text></comment> | <story><title>Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/22/nan-goldin-interview-us-opioid-epidemic-heroin-addict-oxycontin-sackler-family</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>staunch</author><text>Many of us knew about the Home Loan Fraud the Prescription Drug Fraud for years before it &quot;exploded&quot; and yet there didn&#x27;t seem to be anything to do about it.<p>The media and government proved their incompetence and corruption with the ruined lives of millions.<p>I&#x27;m hopeful that the internet is changing this and the time between new massive scams and their exposure shrinks so that fewer people are hurt. That&#x27;s the best we can hope for right now.</text></comment> |
19,703,535 | 19,701,472 | 1 | 3 | 19,701,127 | train | <story><title>Samurai Helmets</title><url>https://news.kynosarges.org/2019/04/19/samurai-helmets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ender7</author><text>While beautiful, most of these pieces are primarily ceremonial or intended for generals who would rarely involve themselves on the battlefield†.<p>Almost all of these pieces date from after the unification of Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate (c. 1600). From 1600 to 1850 Japan experienced a stable period marked by very little real armed conflict. During this time, the samurai transitioned from soldiers to what were effectively mid-level bureaucrats. However, unlike most bureaucrats, they managed to retain all of the trappings of a martial lifestyle, including ornate armor, beautiful swords, and the occasional mortal duel. It was during this time of relative peace that these (sometimes ridiculous) fashion pieces developed, somewhat complicated by the tradition of incorporating pieces of much, much older helmets into the &quot;core&quot; of the helmets (one of the helmets in the OP has a core dating from the 14th century, but was significantly embellished later on).<p>†This is generally true of what arms and armor have survived from around the world. The stuff that was actually used rusted away long ago; the highest chance for survival was to have been so valuable that no one dared to actually take it onto a battlefield.</text></comment> | <story><title>Samurai Helmets</title><url>https://news.kynosarges.org/2019/04/19/samurai-helmets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ereyes01</author><text>After looking at pictures of a bunch of samurai helmets, I came to a realization that Darth Vader&#x27;s helmet is more or less the shape of a samurai helmet. Maybe this should have been obvious to me (especially being a fan of the Hidden Fortress film), but it was a cool discovery for me.</text></comment> |
26,374,833 | 26,374,760 | 1 | 2 | 26,371,848 | train | <story><title>Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen</title><url>https://pmigdal.medium.com/dont-fight-flight-or-freeze-your-body-and-emotions-96f5aa30b299</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nisa</author><text>This is all true but but I&#x27;ve been recently been diagnosed with adult adhd in my mid-30ies and on a low dose of slow release Methylphenidate and it&#x27;s all the difference between getting things done and procrastinating like hell. If you exhausted all the articles and nothing worked and you have big problems for years (like this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gekk.info&#x2F;articles&#x2F;adhd.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gekk.info&#x2F;articles&#x2F;adhd.html</a>) give it a try. In the last weeks I managed to really learn in a structured way for the first time. Of course it&#x27;s no magic solution to all your problems but it&#x27;s a stark difference for me. I just want to leave that here as I&#x27;ve read these articles every other week and nothing sticked. Neither did counseling or talk theraphy - it helped but didn&#x27;t solve the procrastination &#x2F; time issues</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stared</author><text>As a person with ADHD - there is one more layer: why some things cause stress in the first place—in my case, sending official letters causes a PTSD-like panic reaction. Usually, I procrastinate. If I try too hard to get over procrastination, I freeze or fight (which ends up with a meltdown, sometimes as hard as one culminating with a migraine aura).<p>Only a few months ago, I started looking at it. It turns out that sending a letter is a multi-step process. From printing something, signing it, writing the address (I hate my handwriting), going to the post office (often too loud, with long waiting times), sending it (with a proper type of email). All with delayed feedback (a killer for ADHD-like motivation). All in a way that a SINGLE mistake (e.g. sending 2 copies instead of 3, page 5 being unsigned, a missed deadline, etc).<p>Yes, therapy won&#x27;t solve it. I am meeting weekly with a therapist for emotional stuff (but who is virtually clueless about sensory processing issues related to Autism&#x2F;ADHD) and a &quot;Psychologist on the Spectrum&quot; (it&#x27;s her FB page) purely for talking about such matters.<p>Ad substances, in my case, Modafinil works better than Methylphenidate.
Modafinil makes me focused while reducing anxiety.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25996353" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25996353</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen</title><url>https://pmigdal.medium.com/dont-fight-flight-or-freeze-your-body-and-emotions-96f5aa30b299</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nisa</author><text>This is all true but but I&#x27;ve been recently been diagnosed with adult adhd in my mid-30ies and on a low dose of slow release Methylphenidate and it&#x27;s all the difference between getting things done and procrastinating like hell. If you exhausted all the articles and nothing worked and you have big problems for years (like this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gekk.info&#x2F;articles&#x2F;adhd.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gekk.info&#x2F;articles&#x2F;adhd.html</a>) give it a try. In the last weeks I managed to really learn in a structured way for the first time. Of course it&#x27;s no magic solution to all your problems but it&#x27;s a stark difference for me. I just want to leave that here as I&#x27;ve read these articles every other week and nothing sticked. Neither did counseling or talk theraphy - it helped but didn&#x27;t solve the procrastination &#x2F; time issues</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zingar</author><text>100%. I was considered bright but lazy &#x2F; performing below potential throughout my schooling and first years of work. In my thirties I was diagnosed with a combination of anxiety and ADHD and the prescribed medication is immensely helpful. I view younger years of frustration&#x2F;boredom&#x2F;hyperactivity as somewhat wasted and I wish that the adults in my life has realised what was happening when I was a child.<p>The physician who ultimately prescribed the medication informs me:<p>1. Methylphenidate aka Ritalin is not addictive (and I had no problem stopping it for some years when it made sense)<p>2. Probably every adult could benefit from its use at specific crunch times. (But not permanently unless you&#x27;re actually diagnosed with ADHD)<p>The FUD I&#x27;ve experienced when I mention Ritalin always surprises me.</text></comment> |
21,683,486 | 21,683,188 | 1 | 3 | 21,682,015 | train | <story><title>Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under constant surveillance</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/dec/02/school-surveillance-us-schools-safety-shootings</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rahuldottech</author><text>THIS IS NOT OKAY.<p>We can&#x27;t have children being used to constant surveillance and accepting this as a part of life. It sets them up for so many problems in the future, where they won&#x27;t understand the serious implications of constant tracking and surveillance.<p>And sure, nothing <i>too</i> bad comes out of this stuff right now in most of the world, but have you seen China? The minute a government decides to do so, all that data that&#x27;s been collected on you your whole life will be used against you to give you a flawed AI-generated social &quot;score&quot; that determines what you can or cannot do, or to determine whether or not you&#x27;re a &quot;threat&quot; (see: someone who speaks out against wrongdoings) to such a government.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>balabaster</author><text>The flip side of the coin is that kids learn from a very early age what it takes to slip past the surveillance net. The smart ones watch everyone around them get caught for infractions. Taking note. Quietly gathering data. Towing the line, purposely being caught for the occasional minor infraction so as not to appear too good to be true. Until one day, they disappear from prison in the middle of a storm and take the entire foreman&#x27;s investment portfolio with them.<p>Oh wait, I think there was a movie about this...</text></comment> | <story><title>Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under constant surveillance</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/dec/02/school-surveillance-us-schools-safety-shootings</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rahuldottech</author><text>THIS IS NOT OKAY.<p>We can&#x27;t have children being used to constant surveillance and accepting this as a part of life. It sets them up for so many problems in the future, where they won&#x27;t understand the serious implications of constant tracking and surveillance.<p>And sure, nothing <i>too</i> bad comes out of this stuff right now in most of the world, but have you seen China? The minute a government decides to do so, all that data that&#x27;s been collected on you your whole life will be used against you to give you a flawed AI-generated social &quot;score&quot; that determines what you can or cannot do, or to determine whether or not you&#x27;re a &quot;threat&quot; (see: someone who speaks out against wrongdoings) to such a government.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raxxorrax</author><text>I think part of the problem of polarization is distrust in the respective other political isle. Constant surveillance and constant crises are probably key drivers here.<p>Some say it benefits security, but I think the calculation is flawed. You will never get engaged citizens in a open-air prison. People implementing these policies should be deeply ashamed of themselves.</text></comment> |
25,952,686 | 25,952,628 | 1 | 2 | 25,950,685 | train | <story><title>Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-28/robinhood-is-said-to-draw-on-credit-lines-from-banks-amid-tumult</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Justsignedup</author><text>Because it is the equivalent of &quot;we literally don&#x27;t have enough money in the bank to allow you to trade on these&quot;. Which will be a very problematic statement for a trade broker. The equivalent of panic if too many people withdraw from a bank.<p>Few people are actually getting this information. So... its not horrible press for them.<p>And if they say this. People would sue like MAD. Because it would be &quot;RH didn&#x27;t have enough money to trade on a thing they allow trading on. Therefore we missed out on potentially 5 million in profits when I was unable to trade ...&quot; and so the lawsuits begin.</text></item><item><author>g9yuayon</author><text>This sounds the real reason that RH limits the trading of a number of stocks today? If so, why didn&#x27;t they give this straightforward reason? Instead, they resorted to vague excuses like misinformation and &quot;for your own good&quot;.</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>The Depository Trust &amp; Clearing Corporation settles most listed securities transactions in America; in 2011, it did $1.7 quadrillion [1]. You&#x27;ve never heard of it unless you&#x27;re a professional trader, but it&#x27;s actually quite fascinating to read up on.<p>Trading looks instantaneous. But settlement takes a few days. In between are a series of credit agreements. From your broker to you. From the clearinghouse to the brokers. DTCC is the clearinghouse. Robinhood is the broker.<p>There are rules and contracts between DTCC and its members, including Robinhood [2]. Those contracts ensure that when you buy shares through your broker from a Robinhood customer, if Robinhood falls down two days later, there is collateral sufficient to make you whole. Those collateral requirements change in reference to, amongst other things, the volatility of the security. (If a broker falls down, the clearinghouse liquidates their collateral and makes their counterparty whole. More volatility means more chance the collateral will be insufficient.)<p>In this case, collateral requirements on GME went up. Because of its volatility. So while before Robinhood had to pony up collateral for a few shares of GME for every hundred it traded, it now had to, at close of business, pony up one hundred shares&#x27; worth of collateral for every hundred it traded. That creates a cash crunch. One that exacerbates itself with every additional trade in the security. If Robinhood fails to satisfy those collateral calls, they go out of business overnight. Into receivership. Done.<p>Most brokers have policies for these situations. Higher brokerage fees for securities on a schedule. Not making shares and cash from trades available until the trade settles, sort of like what banks do for large cheques. But I don&#x27;t know if Robinhood is able to do that quickly. So instead they pulled the plug.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Depository_Trust_%26_Clearing_Corporation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Depository_Trust_%26_Clearing_...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dtcclearning.com&#x2F;products-and-services&#x2F;settlement&#x2F;settlement-services&#x2F;risk-management&#x2F;296-risk-management-overview&#x2F;2277-collateral-valuation-of-securities.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dtcclearning.com&#x2F;products-and-services&#x2F;settlemen...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrep</author><text>Lol, so instead, most of the internet thinks they are colluding with institutional short sellers at hedge funds in order to save them and screw over retail investors. They already had (probably in spam detection right now as they are currently gone) hundreds of thousands of 1 star reviews on the android star and tons of people like me deleting their app.<p>Oh, and I heard they were supposed to IPO this quarter and I can see this event single handedly completely derailing that with how many users they are going to lose.</text></comment> | <story><title>Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-28/robinhood-is-said-to-draw-on-credit-lines-from-banks-amid-tumult</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Justsignedup</author><text>Because it is the equivalent of &quot;we literally don&#x27;t have enough money in the bank to allow you to trade on these&quot;. Which will be a very problematic statement for a trade broker. The equivalent of panic if too many people withdraw from a bank.<p>Few people are actually getting this information. So... its not horrible press for them.<p>And if they say this. People would sue like MAD. Because it would be &quot;RH didn&#x27;t have enough money to trade on a thing they allow trading on. Therefore we missed out on potentially 5 million in profits when I was unable to trade ...&quot; and so the lawsuits begin.</text></item><item><author>g9yuayon</author><text>This sounds the real reason that RH limits the trading of a number of stocks today? If so, why didn&#x27;t they give this straightforward reason? Instead, they resorted to vague excuses like misinformation and &quot;for your own good&quot;.</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>The Depository Trust &amp; Clearing Corporation settles most listed securities transactions in America; in 2011, it did $1.7 quadrillion [1]. You&#x27;ve never heard of it unless you&#x27;re a professional trader, but it&#x27;s actually quite fascinating to read up on.<p>Trading looks instantaneous. But settlement takes a few days. In between are a series of credit agreements. From your broker to you. From the clearinghouse to the brokers. DTCC is the clearinghouse. Robinhood is the broker.<p>There are rules and contracts between DTCC and its members, including Robinhood [2]. Those contracts ensure that when you buy shares through your broker from a Robinhood customer, if Robinhood falls down two days later, there is collateral sufficient to make you whole. Those collateral requirements change in reference to, amongst other things, the volatility of the security. (If a broker falls down, the clearinghouse liquidates their collateral and makes their counterparty whole. More volatility means more chance the collateral will be insufficient.)<p>In this case, collateral requirements on GME went up. Because of its volatility. So while before Robinhood had to pony up collateral for a few shares of GME for every hundred it traded, it now had to, at close of business, pony up one hundred shares&#x27; worth of collateral for every hundred it traded. That creates a cash crunch. One that exacerbates itself with every additional trade in the security. If Robinhood fails to satisfy those collateral calls, they go out of business overnight. Into receivership. Done.<p>Most brokers have policies for these situations. Higher brokerage fees for securities on a schedule. Not making shares and cash from trades available until the trade settles, sort of like what banks do for large cheques. But I don&#x27;t know if Robinhood is able to do that quickly. So instead they pulled the plug.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Depository_Trust_%26_Clearing_Corporation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Depository_Trust_%26_Clearing_...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dtcclearning.com&#x2F;products-and-services&#x2F;settlement&#x2F;settlement-services&#x2F;risk-management&#x2F;296-risk-management-overview&#x2F;2277-collateral-valuation-of-securities.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dtcclearning.com&#x2F;products-and-services&#x2F;settlemen...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>g9yuayon</author><text>I can accept that they ran out of cash. It&#x27;s just like a company running out of servers when traffic spiked. On the other hand, moralizing their decision and citing misinformation and user-caring erodes trust.</text></comment> |
26,343,465 | 26,343,100 | 1 | 2 | 26,342,020 | train | <story><title>Square acquires majority of Tidal in $297M deal</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/business/media/tidal-square-jay-z-dorsey.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>Remember, Square has a stake in Eventbrite. They now have a stake in the full ecosystem of music artists: Streaming, performances, and soon merch, of course.<p>It&#x27;s a side ecosystem just like restaurants (Square has had a stake in Doordash after selling Caviar to them). Today, Square for Restaurants also released in Canada.<p>As a SQ investor I&#x27;m not <i>crazy</i> about this play but I see the long term reasoning. I also think JAY-Z might help with Cash App although its booming on its own and very much has the rapper demographic already (there are no shortage of songs and albums named Cash App for a reason).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xivzgrev</author><text>Curious why does square want a stake in the ecosystem of music artists?<p>Even eventbrite didn’t need square readers, people mostly buy their tickets in advance. Maybe it’s for event organizers to upsell at the event to attendees?<p>Maybe this is a play to demonstrate investment in black community, as someone else mentioned?</text></comment> | <story><title>Square acquires majority of Tidal in $297M deal</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/business/media/tidal-square-jay-z-dorsey.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>Remember, Square has a stake in Eventbrite. They now have a stake in the full ecosystem of music artists: Streaming, performances, and soon merch, of course.<p>It&#x27;s a side ecosystem just like restaurants (Square has had a stake in Doordash after selling Caviar to them). Today, Square for Restaurants also released in Canada.<p>As a SQ investor I&#x27;m not <i>crazy</i> about this play but I see the long term reasoning. I also think JAY-Z might help with Cash App although its booming on its own and very much has the rapper demographic already (there are no shortage of songs and albums named Cash App for a reason).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chanmad29</author><text>It all seemed rather incoherent without this knowledge.</text></comment> |
15,263,151 | 15,263,165 | 1 | 2 | 15,262,620 | train | <story><title>Cost of iPhone X in 1957</title><url>http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/09/do-they-really-say-technological-progress-is-slowing-down.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Houshalter</author><text>Yes if a government started buying trillions of vacuum tubes, companies would quickly get much more efficient at producing then and there would be a huge investment into researching alternatives.<p>But that brings up the question, what tech could we be subsidizing today so we can get it faster?</text></item><item><author>duhast</author><text>Comparisons like that always assume the that price is constant with increased demand even when world GDP is spent on something. What would likely happen is first the price would go up and later down as the world manufacturing would shift to vacuum tubes production.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheGRS</author><text>Energy comes to my mind: mass battery storage, solar, wind and various other renewable fuel sources. I have a buddy who was working for the Dept of Energy until just recently and was saying that the funding for renewable energy is being wound down very quickly right now, many in that sector (working for DoE that is) will be without a job soon, probably to be scooped up by the private sector. He said it was also a huge shame because those guys were working on some amazing tech that would be hugely beneficial.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cost of iPhone X in 1957</title><url>http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/09/do-they-really-say-technological-progress-is-slowing-down.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Houshalter</author><text>Yes if a government started buying trillions of vacuum tubes, companies would quickly get much more efficient at producing then and there would be a huge investment into researching alternatives.<p>But that brings up the question, what tech could we be subsidizing today so we can get it faster?</text></item><item><author>duhast</author><text>Comparisons like that always assume the that price is constant with increased demand even when world GDP is spent on something. What would likely happen is first the price would go up and later down as the world manufacturing would shift to vacuum tubes production.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nindalf</author><text>We already subsidize renewables, and that is encouraging research into them. The current projection of price per watt for solar is set to plummet in the next decade and a half. It&#x27;s possible that further subsidies would encourage higher levels of production and economies of scale would reduce the price quicker.</text></comment> |
15,413,129 | 15,412,855 | 1 | 2 | 15,412,133 | train | <story><title>The Autocrat's Language</title><url>http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/05/13/the-autocrats-language/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>That was a pleasure to read. Pushing the politics to one side; there is a call here to use words correctly and to use clear and unambiguous descriptions. That is a coherent and entirely reasonable expectation on any political dialog.<p>Doubly rewarding was that the writing style, while not pro-Trump, avoids the bile and hysteria that has been common since the last American election. Limiting criticism to unclear language does the author a lot of credit. Limited changes are needed to apply this article to many political statements.<p>Trumps pronouncements are particularly entertaining examples though. His speech can make it so clear that he isn&#x27;t using specific facts. Watching his opponents trying to deal with something so audacious can be very entertaining.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Autocrat's Language</title><url>http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/05/13/the-autocrats-language/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianratnapala</author><text><i>Then something cannot be described, it does not become a fact of shared reality. Hundreds of millions of Soviet citizens had an experience of the thing that could not be described, but I would argue that they did not share that experience, because they had no language for doing so.</i><p>This is a very good point, but is I think a bit obscured because it seems to mistake the map for the territory. I think what the writer is getting at is that without a shared language it&#x27;s harder to build up common knowledge. Which means more than just everone knowing something. It also means that they all know everyone knows it, and know that everyone knows everyone knows it, <i>ad infinitum</i>.<p>Each person can see the Emperor has no clothes, but without sufficient communication they cannot all know that it is safe to laugh at the Emperor.</text></comment> |
29,273,571 | 29,273,478 | 1 | 2 | 29,273,132 | train | <story><title>FDA wants 55 years to process FOIA request over vaccine data</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants-55-years-process-foia-request-over-vaccine-data-2021-11-18/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walterbell</author><text><i>&gt; The records must be reviewed to redact “confidential business and trade secret information of Pfizer or BioNTech and personal privacy information of patients who participated in clinical trials”</i><p>Wouldn&#x27;t this separation be designed into the process for data management during the clinical trial?<p>Almost all content is managed by computer systems that are designed to protect PII and intellectual property, with managed restriction or redaction for external distribution. If it did not take decades for computer-structured clinical trial data to move across the corporation-&gt;government boundary, why would it take decades to move from government-&gt;citizens?<p>If necessary, the reports can be re-exported from the corporate systems used for clinical trial data management, with <i>additional</i> computer-enforced redaction of sensitive data. There is also AI-assisted software used in legal discovery, which can quickly parse a large document corpus, to flag material for human review.</text></comment> | <story><title>FDA wants 55 years to process FOIA request over vaccine data</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants-55-years-process-foia-request-over-vaccine-data-2021-11-18/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adolph</author><text><i>Justice Department lawyers representing the FDA note in court papers that the plaintiffs are seeking a huge amount of vaccine-related material – about 329,000 pages.</i><p><i>The FDA proposes releasing 500 pages per month on a rolling basis, noting that the branch that would handle the review has only 10 employees and is currently processing about 400 other FOIA requests.</i><p><i>[Plaintiffs] argue that Title 21, subchapter F of the FDA’s own regulations stipulates that the agency “is to make ‘immediately available’ all documents underlying licensure of a vaccine.&quot;</i></text></comment> |
19,426,967 | 19,427,145 | 1 | 2 | 19,425,774 | train | <story><title>My Cognitive Bias – A cognitive bias explained every time you open a new tab</title><url>https://mycognitivebias.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>voidhorse</author><text>First off, it&#x27;s a neat idea and it extrapolates well to other domains. I&#x27;d love to have &quot;random x definition&quot; when I open a new tab--would ensure I at least get some learning done while procrastinating on the web.<p>On a less positive note, and tangentially related:<p>I&#x27;m kind of sick of the whole &quot;bias&quot; obsession. It&#x27;s everyone&#x27;s go-to counterargument these days, and it&#x27;s a shallow, poorly developed one. It&#x27;s like everyone&#x27;s lost critical reasoning skills, which require delicate attention to the particular strategies and propositions deployed in a given argument, and found these set of stock biases to use instead. In fact it&#x27;s <i>impossible</i> to purge an argument or line of thinking of <i>all</i> so-called biases (though these don&#x27;t actually exist in arguments, they are deduced from arguments)--if it were, it wouldn&#x27;t be an argument or thought.<p>The goal of catching our own mistakes is an admirable one, and I&#x27;m not advocating people stop doing that--I just think it too frequently bleeds into trying to find so-called biases in <i>arguments</i> (whether written or verbal). In fact, this is more or less a fool&#x27;s errand. What people are <i>actually</i> trying to point out in arguments are <i>logical fallacies</i> which are traits of the argument. <i>Biases</i> contrarily occur at the individual level and are <i>operational</i> flaws, they only occur <i>during</i> the thought process, and it&#x27;s only meaningful to talk about them in these terms (that is, as they manifest in the ongoing practices of a person)--they are not properties of a line of thought&#x27;s encoding (the written or spoken argument). Fallacies or viewpoints expressed in an argument may <i>hint</i> at the biases of the author, but it&#x27;s a non-sequitur to start talking about them (when critiquing an argument), as the only way one could actually confirm this is by observing the author at work in daily life. To say, such an such an author is biased, is useless. It doesn&#x27;t contribute meaningfully to a critique of the argument, and it would need to be verified through observation of the author.<p><i>Demonstrating</i> to someone that they have developed&#x2F;fall prey to particular bias frequently and working to rectify that <i>one-on-one</i> is a totally different story, or trying to catch biases operating in yourself is a totally different story.<p>Edit: I suppose you could say I&#x27;m biased against biases. A joke that illustrates my point.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Cognitive Bias – A cognitive bias explained every time you open a new tab</title><url>https://mycognitivebias.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>I see a lot of plugins to customize the new tab page, but at least the way I use the browser, I usually never spend more than a second on that page.<p>Do people actually look at what&#x27;s on the new tab page? I literally hit Ctl-T and then start typing a URL or hit a bookmark in the bookmark bar. I don&#x27;t even know what&#x27;s on the blank tab.</text></comment> |
12,416,131 | 12,415,354 | 1 | 2 | 12,414,997 | train | <story><title>Republic – Now everyone can invest in startups</title><url>https://republic.co/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Interesting. These appear to be JOBS act short-form mini-IPOs.[1] That&#x27;s something new, which just became possible this year and hasn&#x27;t been used much.<p>Here&#x27;s Farm from a Box&#x27;s SEC filing.[2] Typical crappy terms - no voting rights, no anti-dilution, no transferability for one year, insiders have control.<p>Nobody associated with the project has a farming background. They have two employees. One is a liberal arts majors from UC Berkeley and one has an unspecified degree from UCLA. They do not have a working prototype farm according to the SEC filing.<p>The filing for Youngry [2] is more interesting. They want to start a glossy web site for young entrepreneurs. They claim lots of good contacts. (Miss Las Vegas?) They&#x27;re only asking for $50K, which isn&#x27;t enough. Two-person business.<p>Republic takes a 5% cut; that&#x27;s how they make their money.<p>This is a reasonable concept, but the current set of deals isn&#x27;t very impressive. These are people looking for Series A funding and would probably be rejected by YC. The idea behind the JOBS act short-form IPO was supposed to be that when your startup got too big for angel&#x2F;friends and family&#x2F;Kickstarter funding, there was a next level and an exit strategy for the original funders. It wasn&#x27;t intended for startups this early.<p>You can look up these companies on the SEC&#x27;s EDGAR system. If you scroll down all the way to the end of Republic&#x27;s pages, there&#x27;s a link.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media2.mofo.com&#x2F;documents&#x2F;120416-pli-quick-guide-jobs-act.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media2.mofo.com&#x2F;documents&#x2F;120416-pli-quick-guide-job...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;1679373&#x2F;000167937316000001&#x2F;FFABFormC.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;1679373&#x2F;000167937316...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;1679372&#x2F;000167937216000002&#x2F;YoungryFormC.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;1679372&#x2F;000167937216...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Republic – Now everyone can invest in startups</title><url>https://republic.co/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twblalock</author><text>You don&#x27;t get shares if you invest -- you get something called a &quot;crowd safe&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;republic.co&#x2F;learn&#x2F;investors&#x2F;crowdsafe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;republic.co&#x2F;learn&#x2F;investors&#x2F;crowdsafe</a><p>More info here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crowdfundinsider.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;87034-republic-adds-creates-crowd-safe-investing-vehicle-for-reg-cf-issuers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crowdfundinsider.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;87034-republic-adds-...</a><p>I&#x27;m a bit leery of these. According to the article, &quot;unless specifically negotiated, SAFE holders do not have any voting or information rights.&quot; I also suspect that the shareholders get taken care of before crowd safe holders in legal or bankruptcy proceedings. The rights of crowd safe holders haven&#x27;t been tested in court.<p>I think the lack of rights and additional risk inherent in crowd safes would need to be compensated for by some kind of discount relative to what investors pay for shares. Otherwise, the risk-adjusted return is lower.<p>I would also be skeptical of the potential of a startup that can&#x27;t convince normal VCs to fund them. If people who do this for a living don&#x27;t think a startup is worth investing in, why should I?</text></comment> |
31,550,961 | 31,550,611 | 1 | 3 | 31,549,791 | train | <story><title>Workers quitting over return-to-office policies</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220523-the-workers-quitting-over-return-to-office-policies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spookthesunset</author><text>I am beginning to think that many remote developers will eventually become 1099 contractors who can pick up random gigs.<p>Because let’s be honest, the reason most of these folks are doing this is because they don’t give a crap about the specific company or anything like that. They just want to build cool shit that other people spec out. As long as the pay is competitive one day they might be building a healthcare mobile app, another day an online car dealership portal.<p>Honestly, I think that is where it’s headed. I know if I went back to being a dev who did 95% of my shit remote, I would much rather be a 1099 “arms length” contractor then I’d be W2 “real employee”. If you are going for the flexibility that remote brings, you might as well make it fully flexible and just be a contract developer… after all you already decided you didn’t give a shit about company politics or culture… you just want to write code! So just become a contractor!</text></item><item><author>axg11</author><text>I like the concept of async work but I’m also scared of how transactional that would make work. Most companies that preach async now have a very strong, “friendly” culture. If async catches on more widely I’m worried it would be the final push to make software development purely transactional and performance&#x2F;pay would be directly tied to metrics.<p>I enjoy the human component of work. I don’t like _all_ of my coworkers, but it’s still a net positive to interact with them.<p>When I think about the ideal software job, a lot of the aspects of day-to-day work informally become async. Especially as you work with people for longer periods of time and gain mutual trust, a good workplace allows both managers and individual contributors to structure their own time.</text></item><item><author>ryanSrich</author><text>Of course this is happening.<p>I’m coming up on year 10 of working remotely, and year 2 of completely async. The only forced-commute job I ever had was for 6 months right out of college.<p>I’ve been preaching remote work for almost the entire time I’ve been doing it. I thought it would catch on much sooner, but it’s here now.<p>I think async is the next thing that will happen. If you’re building software there’s really no reason you have to share working hours with anyone. It’s convenient at times, but it’s by no means required.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rewgs</author><text>Totally agree, and I wouldn&#x27;t have it any other way. I suppose I&#x27;m a bit of a strange case on HN, in that I&#x27;m coming to programming from being a film composer, i.e. I&#x27;ve pretty much always been freelance, and so working as a &quot;real&quot; employee is infinitely weird to me even at the best of times. I worked at a large corporation one time, and while I loved the work and my co-workers, the subtle office politics, the whole idea of a &quot;culture,&quot; the routine day in and day out...it just did <i>not</i> vibe with me. I&#x27;m not totally against going back to being a W2 employee, but it would take an awful lot to convince me.<p>Like others in this thread, the reality that work is primarily a simple transaction of time for money, coupled with my experience being a &quot;real&quot; employee, has ingrained in me the understanding that, if you want to protect yourself as a worker, being at &quot;arms length&quot; as you put it is the way. At least for me.<p>I am a company of one (literally and figuratively). Unfortunately that&#x27;s the logical endpoint of companies not feeling any loyalty towards their employees. So be it, I embrace it, because what else is there to do?</text></comment> | <story><title>Workers quitting over return-to-office policies</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220523-the-workers-quitting-over-return-to-office-policies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spookthesunset</author><text>I am beginning to think that many remote developers will eventually become 1099 contractors who can pick up random gigs.<p>Because let’s be honest, the reason most of these folks are doing this is because they don’t give a crap about the specific company or anything like that. They just want to build cool shit that other people spec out. As long as the pay is competitive one day they might be building a healthcare mobile app, another day an online car dealership portal.<p>Honestly, I think that is where it’s headed. I know if I went back to being a dev who did 95% of my shit remote, I would much rather be a 1099 “arms length” contractor then I’d be W2 “real employee”. If you are going for the flexibility that remote brings, you might as well make it fully flexible and just be a contract developer… after all you already decided you didn’t give a shit about company politics or culture… you just want to write code! So just become a contractor!</text></item><item><author>axg11</author><text>I like the concept of async work but I’m also scared of how transactional that would make work. Most companies that preach async now have a very strong, “friendly” culture. If async catches on more widely I’m worried it would be the final push to make software development purely transactional and performance&#x2F;pay would be directly tied to metrics.<p>I enjoy the human component of work. I don’t like _all_ of my coworkers, but it’s still a net positive to interact with them.<p>When I think about the ideal software job, a lot of the aspects of day-to-day work informally become async. Especially as you work with people for longer periods of time and gain mutual trust, a good workplace allows both managers and individual contributors to structure their own time.</text></item><item><author>ryanSrich</author><text>Of course this is happening.<p>I’m coming up on year 10 of working remotely, and year 2 of completely async. The only forced-commute job I ever had was for 6 months right out of college.<p>I’ve been preaching remote work for almost the entire time I’ve been doing it. I thought it would catch on much sooner, but it’s here now.<p>I think async is the next thing that will happen. If you’re building software there’s really no reason you have to share working hours with anyone. It’s convenient at times, but it’s by no means required.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zdragnar</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working remotely for years, and for companies that literally didn&#x27;t have offices to work from. Everyone was 100% remote, and I can assure you that didn&#x27;t have any impact whatsoever on people&#x27;s passion for their work or the company they worked for.<p>I&#x27;ve seen people in an office not give a damn (literally doing a phone interview for a position at a different company at his desk), and totally remote people probably care a little too much, and everything in-between.</text></comment> |
31,109,063 | 31,107,764 | 1 | 2 | 31,106,150 | train | <story><title>Managing mental health while running a startup</title><url>https://future.a16z.com/managing-your-mental-health-while-running-a-startup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asim</author><text>A lot of people advocate for self help through diet, exercise, meditation, taking time off, etc. While these all have their place, at a certain point and a certain level of stress you stop being able to do it. You end up cutting short during a workout because your brain won&#x27;t switch off. The lack of sleep starts to affect all your cognitive function and then the diet starts to slip and before you know it you&#x27;re eating like crap again.<p>At the best of times these routines of habit are just an escape from the stress or covering the actual problems related to not just running companies as a founder but actual all roles in life that require your ultimate sacrifice of mind, body and soul.<p>The diet, exercise, holidays and whatever else only go so far. Talking to other founders only goes so far. They&#x27;re also struggling but it&#x27;s hard to make time for each other. We&#x27;re all busy just staying afloat. What we don&#x27;t really talk about is the fact that you are more than your startup, that your life and identity is more. Part of that means other experiences or trauma earlier in your life could be magnified by the stresses of running a startup. The people starting companies already have to be a bit delusional.<p>The reality is it&#x27;s excruciatingly hard and yet also still a first world problem because you have to be ultra privileged to be in a place that you&#x27;re even thinking of starting a startup.<p>My last point here. Routines and habits don&#x27;t always help. There has to be more. To ensure the stress and sacrifice are manageable at that level it can often also help to seek external council from a CEO coach, a therapist, etc. Your investors are not going to be helpful here, neither are your friends, family or other founders. You have obligations to all of them and you can&#x27;t use them as a dumping ground. So seeking external guidance at a certain point is a must.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>javajosh</author><text><i>&gt; While [diet, exercise, meditation, taking time off, etc] all have their place, at a certain point and a certain level of stress you stop being able to do it.</i><p>It certainly can feel like that, but it is not true. You are able to do it. The key is to recognize that you are overwhelmed, you no longer have control over your attention, and your first priority is to stop and recover that control.<p>If you operate without control over your attention, you will start making mistakes at higher frequency, and mistakes cause more mistakes, which cause more stress, in a cascade of mistakes. The brain is caught in a cycle of helpless reaction. It requires discipline to step away and regain your focus because every fiber of your being tells you &quot;everything is important right now&quot;. This false belief is the root of much suffering.<p>The feeling of being overwhelmed is characterized by two things: a lack of clarity (a big picture where specific steps are unclear and who&#x27;s relative importance is unclear), and a lack of focus (constantly thinking of the other steps when you&#x27;re executing one). You are like a chef trying to do their job with a dull knife because they don&#x27;t feel they have the time to sharpen it. This forces the chef to improvise ad hoc techniques to succeed with what is effectively a new, worse tool with which they have no practice. Improvisation is laudable and useful, but it&#x27;s also stressful, high-risk.<p>Never accept that you are too stressed to deal with your stress - that&#x27;s just the stress talking. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Managing mental health while running a startup</title><url>https://future.a16z.com/managing-your-mental-health-while-running-a-startup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asim</author><text>A lot of people advocate for self help through diet, exercise, meditation, taking time off, etc. While these all have their place, at a certain point and a certain level of stress you stop being able to do it. You end up cutting short during a workout because your brain won&#x27;t switch off. The lack of sleep starts to affect all your cognitive function and then the diet starts to slip and before you know it you&#x27;re eating like crap again.<p>At the best of times these routines of habit are just an escape from the stress or covering the actual problems related to not just running companies as a founder but actual all roles in life that require your ultimate sacrifice of mind, body and soul.<p>The diet, exercise, holidays and whatever else only go so far. Talking to other founders only goes so far. They&#x27;re also struggling but it&#x27;s hard to make time for each other. We&#x27;re all busy just staying afloat. What we don&#x27;t really talk about is the fact that you are more than your startup, that your life and identity is more. Part of that means other experiences or trauma earlier in your life could be magnified by the stresses of running a startup. The people starting companies already have to be a bit delusional.<p>The reality is it&#x27;s excruciatingly hard and yet also still a first world problem because you have to be ultra privileged to be in a place that you&#x27;re even thinking of starting a startup.<p>My last point here. Routines and habits don&#x27;t always help. There has to be more. To ensure the stress and sacrifice are manageable at that level it can often also help to seek external council from a CEO coach, a therapist, etc. Your investors are not going to be helpful here, neither are your friends, family or other founders. You have obligations to all of them and you can&#x27;t use them as a dumping ground. So seeking external guidance at a certain point is a must.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonswords82</author><text>Good post but there are a couple of points I don&#x27;t completely agree with:<p>&gt; The people starting companies already have to be a bit delusional.<p>I do agree with this point!<p>&gt; you have to be ultra privileged to be in a place that you&#x27;re even thinking of starting a startup.<p>Not necessarily. I started my businesses in a shed in my parent&#x27;s garden and got in to £20k of credit card debt. That&#x27;s not really privilege, I put everything I (didn&#x27;t have) on the line!<p>&gt; Your investors are not going to be helpful here, neither are your friends, family or other founders.<p>I actually think other founders who are level or ahead of you in their startup are fantastically useful<p>Edit: Listening to the comments below about how I don&#x27;t recognise my privilege - I totally get it - of course I do understand that relative to somebody who did not have a garden shed or a credit card to get in to debt with I was privileged. I&#x27;m not a total idiot nor am I ignorant that this is a form of privilege. It&#x27;s just not Mum and Dad gave me a trust fund with £500k in it to go set something up - it&#x27;s all relative and I appreciate my version of privilege was sufficient that I could take the first steps. Something that others won&#x27;t enjoy, hence I am objectively privileged.</text></comment> |
17,782,284 | 17,781,243 | 1 | 2 | 17,775,906 | train | <story><title>NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-offers-full-tuition-scholarships-for-all-medical-students-1534433082</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karishma1234</author><text>&quot;Free&quot; means someone else should be paying for it. Now, as an average income guy I will never earn as much as a Doctor and will vehemently oppose any move to pay for these would be rich people&#x27;s education. If the degree is worth something, please pay it yourself.<p>&gt;Countries like Germany show<p>All these kids are more than welcome to go to Germany and save $500K in tuition fees.</text></item><item><author>geff82</author><text>What a surreal discussion about something obvious: University and college should be free for everyone. First, this is a great equalizer in the positive way: it does not depend on how wealthy your parents are, so you get an equal opportunity. Second: the society as a whole benefits from well educated people. Accounts need well trained doctors, doctors need well trained accountants, both need an engineer to craft them a reliable car, etc etc...<p>Countries like Germany show that university&#x2F;med school can both be free and high quality. Od course also in Germany some private elite universities exists where you have to pay (it is ok, I like diversity). But to get a perfect career, a state run university is all you need.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Broken_Hippo</author><text><i>Now, as an average income guy I will never earn as much as a Doctor and will vehemently oppose any move to pay for these would be rich people&#x27;s education</i><p>Yet... that would cease to be the case. You wouldn&#x27;t be paying for rich people&#x27;s education. You&#x27;d be paying for education for whatever person put in the study time to be a doctor, based on actual merit instead of merit + money. It means that you would have that same chance at schooling. It would mean that doctors could make less money and it probably more likely to live in areas with fewer doctors. And hey, if they become rich, they&#x27;ll be paying it back into the system and paying for more education that you, as an average-income worker, ever would.</text></comment> | <story><title>NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-offers-full-tuition-scholarships-for-all-medical-students-1534433082</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karishma1234</author><text>&quot;Free&quot; means someone else should be paying for it. Now, as an average income guy I will never earn as much as a Doctor and will vehemently oppose any move to pay for these would be rich people&#x27;s education. If the degree is worth something, please pay it yourself.<p>&gt;Countries like Germany show<p>All these kids are more than welcome to go to Germany and save $500K in tuition fees.</text></item><item><author>geff82</author><text>What a surreal discussion about something obvious: University and college should be free for everyone. First, this is a great equalizer in the positive way: it does not depend on how wealthy your parents are, so you get an equal opportunity. Second: the society as a whole benefits from well educated people. Accounts need well trained doctors, doctors need well trained accountants, both need an engineer to craft them a reliable car, etc etc...<p>Countries like Germany show that university&#x2F;med school can both be free and high quality. Od course also in Germany some private elite universities exists where you have to pay (it is ok, I like diversity). But to get a perfect career, a state run university is all you need.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>namdnay</author><text>&gt; as an average income guy I will never earn as much as a Doctor<p>Maybe if you had had free education you could have been a high income guy, perhaps even a doctor!</text></comment> |
12,895,276 | 12,895,182 | 1 | 2 | 12,893,956 | train | <story><title>C for Python programmers (2011)</title><url>http://www.toves.org/books/cpy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>santaclaus</author><text>Aren&#x27;t most OS courses taught in C? At least two years ago when I took operating systems (in the US) we had to hack up Linux source in C.<p>Edit: And thinking on it our computer graphics course was in C++ (yea yea C != C++).</text></item><item><author>0xffff2</author><text>I think it&#x27;s largely the opposite for current students. My university&#x27;s CS program is taught entirely using Python and other higher level languages. CS students here don&#x27;t have to learn C at all anymore; if you want to learn C here, you have to get a Computer Engineering degree.</text></item><item><author>Declanomous</author><text>I agree. My computer science classes were taught almost entirely in C. Learning C-like languages is pretty easy, but I constantly feel like I&#x27;m using Python incorrectly. I feel like I&#x27;m trying to take what is elegant in C and implement it in Python, even though what is elegant in Python is very different.</text></item><item><author>jstimpfle</author><text>&quot;Python for C programmers&quot; would probably make much more sense (following &quot;C for Assembly programmers&quot;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlarocco</author><text>There&#x27;s a huge variety in CS programs and you can&#x27;t really assume anything about the languages they all use. My understanding is that accreditation for CS degree programs is based on concepts, not implementation details like programming language.<p>My OS class (a while ago) used assembly language for a simple VM, with one or two assignments requiring us to modify the VM itself to implement new instructions required for new OS features (task switching, virtual memory, etc.).</text></comment> | <story><title>C for Python programmers (2011)</title><url>http://www.toves.org/books/cpy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>santaclaus</author><text>Aren&#x27;t most OS courses taught in C? At least two years ago when I took operating systems (in the US) we had to hack up Linux source in C.<p>Edit: And thinking on it our computer graphics course was in C++ (yea yea C != C++).</text></item><item><author>0xffff2</author><text>I think it&#x27;s largely the opposite for current students. My university&#x27;s CS program is taught entirely using Python and other higher level languages. CS students here don&#x27;t have to learn C at all anymore; if you want to learn C here, you have to get a Computer Engineering degree.</text></item><item><author>Declanomous</author><text>I agree. My computer science classes were taught almost entirely in C. Learning C-like languages is pretty easy, but I constantly feel like I&#x27;m using Python incorrectly. I feel like I&#x27;m trying to take what is elegant in C and implement it in Python, even though what is elegant in Python is very different.</text></item><item><author>jstimpfle</author><text>&quot;Python for C programmers&quot; would probably make much more sense (following &quot;C for Assembly programmers&quot;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acomjean</author><text>Most OS are written in C. Thus to interface to get good use from the OS you use the libraries which are in C.. (To get networking, shared memory, message passing, process scheduling and all that good stuff).<p>I wrote c wrappers for ada, and it was a pain. Much easier to use C (or C++) to get to OS functionality.<p>As long as OS are written in C, it will be with us. Also useful for embedded.<p>see:
&#x2F;usr&#x2F;include</text></comment> |
1,425,048 | 1,424,737 | 1 | 2 | 1,424,324 | train | <story><title>Pixar films don't get finished, they just get released</title><url>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/06/pixar-films-dont-get-finished-they-just.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gamache</author><text>A manager asked a programmer how long it would take him to finish the program on which he was working. ``It will be finished tomorrow,'' the programmer promptly replied.<p>``I think you are being unrealistic,'' said the manager, ``Truthfully, how long will it take?''<p>The programmer thought for a moment. ``I have some features that I wish to add. This will take at least two weeks,'' he finally said.<p>``Even that is too much to expect,'' insisted the manager, ``I will be satisfied if you simply tell me when the program is complete.''<p>The programmer agreed to this.<p>Several years later, the manager retired. On the way to his retirement luncheon, he discovered the programmer asleep at his terminal. He had been programming all night.<p><i>The Tao of Programming, 5.2</i>
<a href="http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Pixar films don't get finished, they just get released</title><url>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/06/pixar-films-dont-get-finished-they-just.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chops</author><text>That's just about the coolest response to a letter one could hope for - the kinda thing you frame and show your friends (or in this case, highlight on a blog).<p>Handwritten is awesome as it is, but the little sketches give it such a great personal touch. Very classy.</text></comment> |
8,184,612 | 8,183,713 | 1 | 2 | 8,181,308 | train | <story><title>Tax haven in the heart of Britain (2011)</title><url>http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/02/london-corporation-city</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adwf</author><text>Seems to be a lot of complaining about the City of London&#x27;s semi-autonomous status, without actually explaining why this is a bad thing. I&#x27;ve always thought it was just an odd historical quirk. They&#x27;re still subject to the general laws of the country, still subject to the same taxes and regulations.<p>The articles main complaint seems to be about banks and other financial bodies using offshore tax havens, but that has nothing to do with the City&#x27;s odd status. That could happen - and does happen - anywhere in the world...</text></comment> | <story><title>Tax haven in the heart of Britain (2011)</title><url>http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/02/london-corporation-city</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bcRIPster</author><text>For more background, these two videos are amazingly informative.<p>The City of London Explained (pt 1 and 2)<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqs5ohhass_QScZFYoQX-7376-Zp654mH" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLqs5ohhass_QScZFYoQX-...</a></text></comment> |
40,643,074 | 40,643,087 | 1 | 2 | 40,642,328 | train | <story><title>macOS 15.0 supports Nested Virtualization on M3 chips</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/vzgenericplatformconfiguration/4360553-isnestedvirtualizationsupported</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgv</author><text>And what would you do with an ipad running linux? There&#x27;s no tablet software.<p>May sound harsh, but the Open Source movement is just not capable of producing enough software to make Linux a viable on the desktop, let alone on the tablet.</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>There has not yet been a tablet that was commercially competitive with iPad, measured by sales volume&#x2F;revenue.<p>Perhaps a future PC OEM 2-in-1 will be successful, based on Qualcomm Oryon&#x2F;Arm SoC from ex-Apple Nuvia.<p><i>&gt; software updates are way longer</i><p>There&#x27;s no &quot;longer&quot; for comparison, when there is no competitor.<p>Old iPads could continue to work for years, running Linux. Apple could unlock the boot after terminating support.</text></item><item><author>mirzap</author><text>What eWaste are you talking about? The lifetime, battery life, and software updates are way longer than those of any other tablet on the market. iPads are not a replacement for Macbooks or PCs; let it be the iPad.</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>At this point, only the EU can save the iPad from being eWaste World Champion.<p>Mandate support for alternate OSes, like Asahi Linux on Macbook, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;docs&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apple-Platform-Security-Crash-Course">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;docs&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apple-Platform-Secur...</a><p><i>&gt; ipadOS not even one layer of Mac virtualization</i><p>iPadOS 17 on M4 has a &quot;Secure Exclave&quot; OS, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@_inside&#x2F;112440596781136013" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@_inside&#x2F;112440596781136013</a></text></item><item><author>whatever1</author><text>And ipadOS not even one layer of Mac virtualization</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amtamt</author><text>Linux became a thing because computing devices were available for development.
I guess if enough Ipad hardware is available without too much black magic, there could be a stack viable based on linux or some other OS (possibly not yet created)</text></comment> | <story><title>macOS 15.0 supports Nested Virtualization on M3 chips</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/vzgenericplatformconfiguration/4360553-isnestedvirtualizationsupported</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgv</author><text>And what would you do with an ipad running linux? There&#x27;s no tablet software.<p>May sound harsh, but the Open Source movement is just not capable of producing enough software to make Linux a viable on the desktop, let alone on the tablet.</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>There has not yet been a tablet that was commercially competitive with iPad, measured by sales volume&#x2F;revenue.<p>Perhaps a future PC OEM 2-in-1 will be successful, based on Qualcomm Oryon&#x2F;Arm SoC from ex-Apple Nuvia.<p><i>&gt; software updates are way longer</i><p>There&#x27;s no &quot;longer&quot; for comparison, when there is no competitor.<p>Old iPads could continue to work for years, running Linux. Apple could unlock the boot after terminating support.</text></item><item><author>mirzap</author><text>What eWaste are you talking about? The lifetime, battery life, and software updates are way longer than those of any other tablet on the market. iPads are not a replacement for Macbooks or PCs; let it be the iPad.</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>At this point, only the EU can save the iPad from being eWaste World Champion.<p>Mandate support for alternate OSes, like Asahi Linux on Macbook, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;docs&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apple-Platform-Security-Crash-Course">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;docs&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apple-Platform-Secur...</a><p><i>&gt; ipadOS not even one layer of Mac virtualization</i><p>iPadOS 17 on M4 has a &quot;Secure Exclave&quot; OS, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@_inside&#x2F;112440596781136013" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@_inside&#x2F;112440596781136013</a></text></item><item><author>whatever1</author><text>And ipadOS not even one layer of Mac virtualization</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hagbard_c</author><text>Linux has been &#x27;ready for the desktop&#x27; for more than a decade, far longer for those who use it &#x27;professionally&#x27; so that old trope can be put to pasture. As to what to run on a Linux tablet there&#x27;s Plasma Mobile (KDE), Ubuntu Touch, Gnome&#x2F;Phosh, PostmarketOS with any of the above and more. If you&#x27;re looking for a single &#x27;Linux tablet interface&#x27; you won&#x27;t find it as there is no single &#x27;Linux $thing&#x27; anywhere - you get the choice between many alternatives, some more polished&#x2F;functional&#x2F;useable than others.</text></comment> |
19,607,098 | 19,606,539 | 1 | 2 | 19,605,712 | train | <story><title>Apple’s $9 engineering marvel no one wants (2017)</title><url>https://misfra.me/2017/12/12/apples-9-dollar-engineering-marvel-no-one-wants/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericabiz</author><text>I have non-anecdotal evidence that people definitely buy the Lightning to headphone adapter. We sell them in our stores and it&#x27;s one of our biggest accessory sales.<p>You know why people buy them all the time, though? Because, frankly, it&#x27;s a terrible design. It&#x27;s tiny, easy to lose or forget, and they break easily. <i>That&#x27;s</i> why it has such terrible reviews in the Apple store site--it&#x27;s not a good product for what it is.<p>I deal with Apple products on the daily, and the removal of the headphone jack is still one of the things that irritates me most about Apple.<p>The others would be: the whole battery scandal where Apple slowed down older phones without explaining that the battery, a replaceable component, was the issue. And the 2016-2018 MacBook keyboards, which are an absolute travesty.<p>The headphone to Lightning adapter may be a &quot;marvel of engineering&quot;, but it was a completely unnecessary one. It doesn&#x27;t create more room inside the phone, and Samsung had water-resistant phones with headphone jacks. It&#x27;s basically designed to force you on to more expensive wireless headphones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>basch</author><text>Apple didnt &quot;slow down phones with old batteries&quot;, they capped the power output to the cpu of batteries that couldnt deliver reliable peak power anymore, so the phone didnt panic and crash as the cpu usage redlined. Their actions are much preferred to the alternative.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple’s $9 engineering marvel no one wants (2017)</title><url>https://misfra.me/2017/12/12/apples-9-dollar-engineering-marvel-no-one-wants/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericabiz</author><text>I have non-anecdotal evidence that people definitely buy the Lightning to headphone adapter. We sell them in our stores and it&#x27;s one of our biggest accessory sales.<p>You know why people buy them all the time, though? Because, frankly, it&#x27;s a terrible design. It&#x27;s tiny, easy to lose or forget, and they break easily. <i>That&#x27;s</i> why it has such terrible reviews in the Apple store site--it&#x27;s not a good product for what it is.<p>I deal with Apple products on the daily, and the removal of the headphone jack is still one of the things that irritates me most about Apple.<p>The others would be: the whole battery scandal where Apple slowed down older phones without explaining that the battery, a replaceable component, was the issue. And the 2016-2018 MacBook keyboards, which are an absolute travesty.<p>The headphone to Lightning adapter may be a &quot;marvel of engineering&quot;, but it was a completely unnecessary one. It doesn&#x27;t create more room inside the phone, and Samsung had water-resistant phones with headphone jacks. It&#x27;s basically designed to force you on to more expensive wireless headphones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nacho2sweet</author><text>I lost 3 of them until my current ones have &quot;lasted&quot; a year. If I move the cord at certain angles, the phones voice control switches on, podcasts skip, pause, or run at 3x speed.<p>I don&#x27;t mind the cord, I don&#x27;t see why $200 shitty earpods that I have to charge every 5 hours and battery runs out after 1.5 years is better.</text></comment> |
31,878,823 | 31,878,224 | 1 | 2 | 31,876,981 | train | <story><title>AT&T lawyer stopped Plan 9 release CD with songs by Lou Reed, Debbie Harry</title><url>https://www.tuhs.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/H2XN5ONL3XAAUFVERXNYKS7QOZAOGBFA/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>When I developed the first native C++ compiler around 1987, I thought I&#x27;d better check with AT&amp;T&#x27;s lawyers if I could:<p>1. sell a C++ compiler<p>2. call it C++<p>Their lawyer was very nice, and said sure. He also laughed and said he appreciated that I was the only one who bothered to ask.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cgriswald</author><text>In the early internet days, when I was young and learning HTML, the book I used to learn recommended <i>asking permission</i> to link to a website. I thought that was weird, but I was a rule follower then. So I, a kid, sent a message to the &#x27;webmaster&#x27; of a local government site and dutifully asked permission to link to their home page.<p>The said no.<p>If I&#x27;m ever a super-villain, I&#x27;m using this as my origin story.</text></comment> | <story><title>AT&T lawyer stopped Plan 9 release CD with songs by Lou Reed, Debbie Harry</title><url>https://www.tuhs.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/H2XN5ONL3XAAUFVERXNYKS7QOZAOGBFA/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>When I developed the first native C++ compiler around 1987, I thought I&#x27;d better check with AT&amp;T&#x27;s lawyers if I could:<p>1. sell a C++ compiler<p>2. call it C++<p>Their lawyer was very nice, and said sure. He also laughed and said he appreciated that I was the only one who bothered to ask.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>P.S. Bjarne Stroustrup and especially Andrew Koenig were super nice and supportive of my efforts in those days. The nascent C++ community was very welcoming.</text></comment> |
26,777,337 | 26,776,906 | 1 | 2 | 26,776,510 | train | <story><title>Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago</title><url>https://electrek.co/2021/04/11/tesla-hikes-solar-roof-price-on-contracts-signed-over-a-year-ago/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text><i>&quot;Adding insult to injury, Tesla also states that they “will be prioritizing customers based on the order in which they accept their updated agreements.” For customers who have already been waiting for months or a year for their new roof, they are now being told that they need to agree to spend tens of thousands more dollars, as quickly as possible, if they want to reduce their wait time.</i>&quot;<p>okay, let me get this straight. They&#x27;re increasing the cost of a contract you&#x27;d already signed and then they&#x27;re passive aggressively threatening customers to push them to the back of the queue if they don&#x27;t agree?<p>Excuse the profanity but holy shit, that is the most brazen thing I&#x27;ve read in a long time. How can that be legal</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>It&#x27;s legal enough, but what is also legal is that the other party exits the contract right there and then. Tesla offers to change the contract, and the other party does not have to agree.<p>If they need a new roof they can go to a regular roofer instead at a fraction of the cost.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago</title><url>https://electrek.co/2021/04/11/tesla-hikes-solar-roof-price-on-contracts-signed-over-a-year-ago/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text><i>&quot;Adding insult to injury, Tesla also states that they “will be prioritizing customers based on the order in which they accept their updated agreements.” For customers who have already been waiting for months or a year for their new roof, they are now being told that they need to agree to spend tens of thousands more dollars, as quickly as possible, if they want to reduce their wait time.</i>&quot;<p>okay, let me get this straight. They&#x27;re increasing the cost of a contract you&#x27;d already signed and then they&#x27;re passive aggressively threatening customers to push them to the back of the queue if they don&#x27;t agree?<p>Excuse the profanity but holy shit, that is the most brazen thing I&#x27;ve read in a long time. How can that be legal</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mytailorisrich</author><text>The shady behaviour here is that they are framing this as &#x27;updated terms&#x27; that people have to accept. Indeed this is quite aggressive and should cause whatever regulator&#x2F;authorities to look into their practices.<p>Of course what they are actually doing is they are <i>proposing</i> new terms, which customers are free to refuse. The existing contracts stand and Tesla would need to follow whatever is permitted in the contract or contract law to cancel it or be liable for compensation.<p>I would also think that there ought to be an expectation of a reasonable deadline to execute the contract or customers can ask for a refund (at a minimum) and walk away, but IANA.</text></comment> |
31,358,823 | 31,358,179 | 1 | 2 | 31,356,896 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?</title><text>I don&#x27;t know if you have noticed that if you copy+paste into email pages&#x2F;apps like outlook and gmail they bring over all the formatting and styling of the source. That is, it pastes the text in with things like the font color and background color, and the font type itself, which then become the styling for the rest of the email if you keep typing as well.<p>Who came up with this? It makes absolutely no sense that anyone would want to transplant styling&#x2F;formatting into an email, where there is no guarantee (indeed, little chance) that it will mesh well. It&#x27;s just baffling.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryanrasmussen</author><text>On Mac you can do shift+option+command+v to paste with formatting removed.</text></item><item><author>bombledmonk</author><text>In many, but not all programs on windows you can paste plain text by using ctrl+shift+v. Outlook desktop is one of the few places where this hotkey does not work.<p>Before I knew there was a native hotkey combo, I created a autohotkey script that would do that and had a mini-tutorial that showed how.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.digikey.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-everywhere-slack-excel-outlook-kicad-and-more&#x2F;13405" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.digikey.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-eve...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wintermutestwin</author><text>Thanks so much for this - I can&#x27;t imagine how much time I have wasted jumping through goofy hoops trying to change the formatting in gmail.<p>If only there was a way to set this as the default and format pasting as the shift setting.<p>FWIW, shift+command+v works for me...</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?</title><text>I don&#x27;t know if you have noticed that if you copy+paste into email pages&#x2F;apps like outlook and gmail they bring over all the formatting and styling of the source. That is, it pastes the text in with things like the font color and background color, and the font type itself, which then become the styling for the rest of the email if you keep typing as well.<p>Who came up with this? It makes absolutely no sense that anyone would want to transplant styling&#x2F;formatting into an email, where there is no guarantee (indeed, little chance) that it will mesh well. It&#x27;s just baffling.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryanrasmussen</author><text>On Mac you can do shift+option+command+v to paste with formatting removed.</text></item><item><author>bombledmonk</author><text>In many, but not all programs on windows you can paste plain text by using ctrl+shift+v. Outlook desktop is one of the few places where this hotkey does not work.<p>Before I knew there was a native hotkey combo, I created a autohotkey script that would do that and had a mini-tutorial that showed how.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.digikey.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-everywhere-slack-excel-outlook-kicad-and-more&#x2F;13405" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.digikey.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-eve...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tbrock</author><text>I think you just need to add shift, option is not necessary.</text></comment> |
3,603,119 | 3,602,334 | 1 | 2 | 3,602,121 | train | <story><title>Stop Paying Your jQuery Tax</title><url>http://samsaffron.com/archive/2012/02/17/stop-paying-your-jquery-tax</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alecco</author><text>Please go check out StackOverflow's source code before bandwagoning on this topic.<p>This is shifting blame to the tools. The problem lies on StackOverflow's lacking design and not in jQuery.<p>Pushing jQuery to the bottom of the page is trivial if you do proper HTML architecture. Pages should have only HTML. JS files only JS. JS files referenced at the very bottom of the body. Very simple. (if your asp/c#/* framework doesn't make it easy, blame the framework and not jQuery)<p>Inlining JS and even having JS code in the title attributes is ridiculous. Fix your HTML and only then you get the right to say anything. Another telling gem is StackOverflow page doesn't even have a proper encoding declaration.<p>You don't need to use jQuery for everything. This is very typical of developers coming from backend who don't take web development seriously. Use CSS as much as possible.<p>Another misplaced attack is refresh, with proper cache headers it should not take that long. If some browsers are slow and don't keep a pre-parsed cache, blame the browser vendor and not jQuery.<p>jQuery taking 80ms on mobiles is quite OK. If you really care about mobile make a page optimized for mobile and minimize JS rendering and styling.<p>I absolutely love StackOverflow and it's one of the best things to happen to programmers in the last few years. But this self-righteousness attack on a very important tool is very misleading and ungrateful.<p>Edit: the proposed "solution" of catching $.ready and later calling those is insane.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop Paying Your jQuery Tax</title><url>http://samsaffron.com/archive/2012/02/17/stop-paying-your-jquery-tax</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>EGreg</author><text>That is a great point!<p>An interesting question is, why not just put ALL scripts at the end of the &#60;body&#62; tag, after the HTML of the page has loaded and the CSS probably did as well?<p>The only thing I can think of is if you have code ON the page which uses these scripts. But why not just put that code at the end of the page, too?</text></comment> |
18,732,786 | 18,732,741 | 1 | 2 | 18,727,070 | train | <story><title>How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke (2015)</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/67/reboot/how-maths-most-famous-proof-nearly-broke-rp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drej</author><text>I can recommend Simon Singh&#x27;s book on this topic, his writing is rather captivating (The Big Bang is one of the best books I&#x27;ve read, so is the Code Book). He also made a BBC documentary on the topic.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonsingh.net&#x2F;books&#x2F;fermats-last-theorem&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonsingh.net&#x2F;books&#x2F;fermats-last-theorem&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke (2015)</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/67/reboot/how-maths-most-famous-proof-nearly-broke-rp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oxymoron</author><text>Is it really fair to say that Wiles proof is the most famous in mathematics? Seems to me like something like the Euclid’s proof of the infinitude of the primes might be more well known? Or the standard geometrical proof of Pythagoras theorem?</text></comment> |
26,104,782 | 26,104,808 | 1 | 2 | 26,102,076 | train | <story><title>AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Hiring-More-Linux-2021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shaicoleman</author><text>I really hope they hire more people to work on the Linux GPU drivers, and have the drivers ready and stable on launch, and not years later.<p>I&#x27;ve experienced the following issues on my laptop (Dell G5 SE):<p>* Crashes on suspend&#x2F;resume. [1]<p>* Kernel warning on boot [2]<p>* It crashes for me without amdgpu.runpm=0 kernel config [3] (fixed?)<p>* Crashes when inserting and removing USB-C monitor (fixed?)<p>* The onboard GPU works, but the dedicated GPU crashes with vsync. (didn&#x27;t test recently)<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;drm&#x2F;amd&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1222" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;drm&#x2F;amd&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1222</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;drm&#x2F;amd&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;912" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;drm&#x2F;amd&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;912</a><p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;drm&#x2F;amd&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1304" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;drm&#x2F;amd&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1304</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickserv</author><text>My driver experience has been overwhelmingly positive, but I do tend to run older (cheaper) chipsets.<p>On my work computer with a Ryzen 7 &quot;Renoir&quot; GPU the problem was not the drivers but the fact that the latest Ubuntu LTS ships with an older kernel, so having to run latest mainline.<p>I have a feeling this sort of situation will become more and more problematic, especially when new architectures are released. Somewhere the Linux community may have to step up for more easily having recent kernels.</text></comment> | <story><title>AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Hiring-More-Linux-2021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shaicoleman</author><text>I really hope they hire more people to work on the Linux GPU drivers, and have the drivers ready and stable on launch, and not years later.<p>I&#x27;ve experienced the following issues on my laptop (Dell G5 SE):<p>* Crashes on suspend&#x2F;resume. [1]<p>* Kernel warning on boot [2]<p>* It crashes for me without amdgpu.runpm=0 kernel config [3] (fixed?)<p>* Crashes when inserting and removing USB-C monitor (fixed?)<p>* The onboard GPU works, but the dedicated GPU crashes with vsync. (didn&#x27;t test recently)<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;drm&#x2F;amd&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1222" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;drm&#x2F;amd&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1222</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;drm&#x2F;amd&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;912" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;drm&#x2F;amd&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;912</a><p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;drm&#x2F;amd&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1304" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;drm&#x2F;amd&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1304</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>offtop5</author><text>Most of the money spent here it&#x27;s probably going to help server side Linux which is a much bigger market. But I&#x27;m just as optimistic as you</text></comment> |
33,385,623 | 33,385,483 | 1 | 3 | 33,384,391 | train | <story><title>Why does the US allow a controversial weedkiller banned across the world?</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/28/paraquat-weedkiller-epa-ban</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nanana909</author><text>&gt; The money is given with expectation of reward. If the bribing entity didn’t expect a direct reward, they wouldn’t give the money.<p>Let’s say a lobbyist for a nonprofit cancer research group has dinner with a representative and discusses reasons for (lobbies) him to vote for increased cancer research at this dinner. Is this bribery? Because it is lobbying. But under your definition of lobbying and bribing being equivalent terms, they are the same! And to call such an action bribery isn’t really making your case - it’s just nuking the utility of both of the words.<p>This is a problem with modern political discourse - all rhetoric is flattened. No - lobbying is lobbying. Bribing is bribing.</text></item><item><author>sonofhans</author><text>Of course it’s bribery. Everyone involved knows it’s bribery. The money is given with expectation of reward. If the bribing entity didn’t expect a direct reward, they wouldn’t give the money.<p>Now, everyone tries to hide behind levels of abstraction — “It’s just lobbying!” — but those are just fig leaves and reasonable people should see through them. E.g., “Exxon gave the money to my campaign committee, and I’m not involved with the finance end; my vote in favor of Exxon was just a coincidence.” That’s pure bullshit and everyone knows it.<p>So yes it’s bribery. Calling it something else is disingenuous.</text></item><item><author>Nanana909</author><text>&gt; lobbying&#x27;. That is, the free, democratic, and fully legal, bribery of government legislators and elected officials by profit-driven corporate bodies.<p>That’s not really the definition of lobbying though. We should try to avoid hyperboles. Additionally, bribery is not legal and that’s not even remotely the form that the vast majority of lobbying takes today.</text></item><item><author>boomskats</author><text>SPOILER ALERT: the answer is &#x27;lobbying&#x27;. That is, the free, democratic, and fully legal, bribery of government legislators and elected officials by profit-driven corporate bodies.<p>I, for one, was not surprised.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>serf</author><text>&gt;Lets say a lobbyist for a nonprofit cancer research group has dinner with a representative and lobbies him to vote for increased cancer research at this dinner. Is this bribery?<p>most people would tend to agree that if it required something it was at the very least an exchange, perhaps a bribe.<p>one could ask why the request for support couldn&#x27;t be done over the phone; the answer is &quot;because of the dinner.&quot; -- well, then, isn&#x27;t the dinner being exchanged for the support?<p>what is the value of the dinner? Does the value represent a monetary amount that would throw red flags up regarding the dinner being an exchange of value rather than a living expense? Does this exchange of value represent a bribe?<p>It&#x27;s not as cut and dry as &quot;A is lobbying and B is bribing.&quot;, that&#x27;s why most political corruption scandals are generally handled by committees of people that try to go through the events to extract meaning from them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why does the US allow a controversial weedkiller banned across the world?</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/28/paraquat-weedkiller-epa-ban</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nanana909</author><text>&gt; The money is given with expectation of reward. If the bribing entity didn’t expect a direct reward, they wouldn’t give the money.<p>Let’s say a lobbyist for a nonprofit cancer research group has dinner with a representative and discusses reasons for (lobbies) him to vote for increased cancer research at this dinner. Is this bribery? Because it is lobbying. But under your definition of lobbying and bribing being equivalent terms, they are the same! And to call such an action bribery isn’t really making your case - it’s just nuking the utility of both of the words.<p>This is a problem with modern political discourse - all rhetoric is flattened. No - lobbying is lobbying. Bribing is bribing.</text></item><item><author>sonofhans</author><text>Of course it’s bribery. Everyone involved knows it’s bribery. The money is given with expectation of reward. If the bribing entity didn’t expect a direct reward, they wouldn’t give the money.<p>Now, everyone tries to hide behind levels of abstraction — “It’s just lobbying!” — but those are just fig leaves and reasonable people should see through them. E.g., “Exxon gave the money to my campaign committee, and I’m not involved with the finance end; my vote in favor of Exxon was just a coincidence.” That’s pure bullshit and everyone knows it.<p>So yes it’s bribery. Calling it something else is disingenuous.</text></item><item><author>Nanana909</author><text>&gt; lobbying&#x27;. That is, the free, democratic, and fully legal, bribery of government legislators and elected officials by profit-driven corporate bodies.<p>That’s not really the definition of lobbying though. We should try to avoid hyperboles. Additionally, bribery is not legal and that’s not even remotely the form that the vast majority of lobbying takes today.</text></item><item><author>boomskats</author><text>SPOILER ALERT: the answer is &#x27;lobbying&#x27;. That is, the free, democratic, and fully legal, bribery of government legislators and elected officials by profit-driven corporate bodies.<p>I, for one, was not surprised.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bastawhiz</author><text>It is still bribery. We don&#x27;t really see it, though, because it&#x27;s politically popular enough to direct support to cancer research so that lobbying is hardly necessary.</text></comment> |
12,827,281 | 12,826,824 | 1 | 3 | 12,824,349 | train | <story><title>ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month in Company History</title><url>http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espn-loses-621-000-subscribers-worst-month-in-company-history-102916</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IBM</author><text>Would you spend $25-35 per month for ESPN? Because that&#x27;s what it would probably cost if it wasn&#x27;t subsidized by the bundle.<p>Your answer to that question may in fact be yes, but the economics don&#x27;t work out. Disney would make more money getting $6 from every cable subscriber than try to scratch and claw to scale up an OTT service like Netflix that would inevitably cannibalize their current business.<p>The only thing that will change the economics is when the market forces their hand, which is what this story is about.</text></item><item><author>Phlow</author><text>I would pay ESPN $10 a month for an ESPN streaming app that had access to all the college football games (no blackouts), alone, as long as it didn&#x27;t require a cable subscription. The current ESPN streaming app is garbage, compared to Netflix, and other on-demand interfaces. It&#x27;s not available on my Smart TV. The quality of the streaming is terrible. It&#x27;s slow to bring up video. The ads are repetitive and annoying, and it&#x27;s a second class citizen with wait screens while local ads are up on broadcast.<p>Comcast recently decided to institute a 1TB&#x2F;month cap in my area, with a charge of $10 per 50GB after up to $200, or $50 for unlimited (opt-in, by the sounds). There are no technical reasons why they did this, it was entirely to gain more revenue to make up for the cord cutters. Their own streaming service doesn&#x27;t apply to their data cap.<p>The whole thing is garbage and needs to be completely changed. The moment Google Fiber or something better comes along in my area, I&#x27;m going internet only, and I&#x27;ll just go without until they realize how badly they&#x27;ve managed to move with the trends and start fixing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matt4077</author><text>Sports is the one area where it basically costs whatever people decide. IF ESPN goes belly-up, somebody will buy the rights for less money, and the cycle continues until it finds a new balance. There&#x27;s a lot of flexibility in players&#x27; salaries and owners&#x27; profits that can only exist because professional sports leagues operate in a somewhat inelastic market (you&#x27;re not going to switch to watching ping pong just because it&#x27;s cheaper).</text></comment> | <story><title>ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month in Company History</title><url>http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espn-loses-621-000-subscribers-worst-month-in-company-history-102916</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IBM</author><text>Would you spend $25-35 per month for ESPN? Because that&#x27;s what it would probably cost if it wasn&#x27;t subsidized by the bundle.<p>Your answer to that question may in fact be yes, but the economics don&#x27;t work out. Disney would make more money getting $6 from every cable subscriber than try to scratch and claw to scale up an OTT service like Netflix that would inevitably cannibalize their current business.<p>The only thing that will change the economics is when the market forces their hand, which is what this story is about.</text></item><item><author>Phlow</author><text>I would pay ESPN $10 a month for an ESPN streaming app that had access to all the college football games (no blackouts), alone, as long as it didn&#x27;t require a cable subscription. The current ESPN streaming app is garbage, compared to Netflix, and other on-demand interfaces. It&#x27;s not available on my Smart TV. The quality of the streaming is terrible. It&#x27;s slow to bring up video. The ads are repetitive and annoying, and it&#x27;s a second class citizen with wait screens while local ads are up on broadcast.<p>Comcast recently decided to institute a 1TB&#x2F;month cap in my area, with a charge of $10 per 50GB after up to $200, or $50 for unlimited (opt-in, by the sounds). There are no technical reasons why they did this, it was entirely to gain more revenue to make up for the cord cutters. Their own streaming service doesn&#x27;t apply to their data cap.<p>The whole thing is garbage and needs to be completely changed. The moment Google Fiber or something better comes along in my area, I&#x27;m going internet only, and I&#x27;ll just go without until they realize how badly they&#x27;ve managed to move with the trends and start fixing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomjakubowski</author><text>ESPN does more than just broadcast live sporting events. They have to fill a whole 24 hours every day, so they also produce original programming (Sportscenter, PTI, Around the Horn, etc.). The original shows are surely cheaper for ESPN to produce than the live stuff (broadcast rights are expensive), but many viewers get almost no value out of them in the Web era. (I can get my &quot;hot takes&quot; from Twitter and blogs, thank you very much.)<p>If I could pay <i>only</i> for ESPN&#x27;s coverage of live events in $SPORTS_I_CARE_ABOUT, I would do that happily. And I do pay for similar products, with my MLB.TV and NBA Game Time subscriptions, but that&#x27;s only because I&#x27;m lucky enough to live outside of my favorite teams&#x27; blackout areas. Even then, though, I miss out on national broadcasts, which are blacked out, and I have to either go to a bar or find an illegal stream on the Web to watch the game.</text></comment> |
15,476,639 | 15,476,640 | 1 | 2 | 15,476,357 | train | <story><title>My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies</title><url>https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2017/10/15/my-20-year-experience-of-software-development-methodologies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>There is an insider story about how these methodologies comes about. So there are few groups of people whose sole job is to do consulting on failed&#x2F;late&#x2F;over budget projects. Mind you, they <i>don&#x27;t</i> write code but rather they observe how things are going and then prescribe process&#x2F;management improvements (McKinsey style). Once in a while, these folks bump in to terrible projects and whatever they prescribed sometime works like a charm. In that case, they take that prescription on road and advertise the hell out in conferences, magazines, blog posts. Unlike regular developers, they have all the time in the world to do these activities. They write books and give interviews and by the media power of distributing information suddenly they pop out as process gods who knows how to fix any project. Eventually the new things starts to fad, people realize what works in project X didn&#x27;t worked in Y, speaker engagements starts drying out and then these folks need new thing to repeat the cycle.<p>The obvious problem is that these folks prescribing the development process are not active developers. They are not even part of any real project over any long duration. They are in job of inventing and selling processes and handing out management advice as consultants. Whatever they prescribe, might have worked only in specific context and for specific symptoms, usually with huge dose of luck. Next time when you see new process fad, look up the history of originator of this process, what company he is part of, how much code has he written, how he makes money. You will know what I&#x27;m talking about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmcnl</author><text>This is not true for agile. The agile manifesto was in fact drafted by software developers. Also, agile doesn&#x27;t prescribe any process at all, in fact, it does the opposite. Agile in essence is quite beautiful, unfortunately it gets twisted and turned upside down until it&#x27;s just another methodology (which is exactly the opposite of its original meaning).</text></comment> | <story><title>My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies</title><url>https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2017/10/15/my-20-year-experience-of-software-development-methodologies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>There is an insider story about how these methodologies comes about. So there are few groups of people whose sole job is to do consulting on failed&#x2F;late&#x2F;over budget projects. Mind you, they <i>don&#x27;t</i> write code but rather they observe how things are going and then prescribe process&#x2F;management improvements (McKinsey style). Once in a while, these folks bump in to terrible projects and whatever they prescribed sometime works like a charm. In that case, they take that prescription on road and advertise the hell out in conferences, magazines, blog posts. Unlike regular developers, they have all the time in the world to do these activities. They write books and give interviews and by the media power of distributing information suddenly they pop out as process gods who knows how to fix any project. Eventually the new things starts to fad, people realize what works in project X didn&#x27;t worked in Y, speaker engagements starts drying out and then these folks need new thing to repeat the cycle.<p>The obvious problem is that these folks prescribing the development process are not active developers. They are not even part of any real project over any long duration. They are in job of inventing and selling processes and handing out management advice as consultants. Whatever they prescribe, might have worked only in specific context and for specific symptoms, usually with huge dose of luck. Next time when you see new process fad, look up the history of originator of this process, what company he is part of, how much code has he written, how he makes money. You will know what I&#x27;m talking about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>Well, let&#x27;s see:<p>Extreme Programming (XP): created by Ron Jeffries, Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham - all developers.<p>The Agile Manifesto: written by seventeen developers (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;agilemanifesto.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;agilemanifesto.org&#x2F;</a>).<p>Scrum: created by two of the seventeen above.</text></comment> |
6,111,190 | 6,110,912 | 1 | 3 | 6,110,671 | train | <story><title>Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer</title><url>http://justin.abrah.ms/computer-science/big-o-notation-explained.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>YZF</author><text>The math of Big-O isn&#x27;t that hard and the article while having good intentions misses the point. Big-O is about asymptotic behaviour and the graphs are misleading in that regard (well, they&#x27;re simply wrong, not misleading). There are algorithms where if you just look at the Big-O you&#x27;d think one has faster run time than the other but because the constants fall out that wouldn&#x27;t be the case for any practical problem size.<p>What O(N) means is there is some large enough number where the run-time (edit: or any function really) is bounded by a constant times the input size for any input size larger than that number (see, math, not hard). That constant may be so large that an O(N^2) may be a better solution for any practical purpose.<p>EDIT: As an example of this we can look at two multiplication algorithms, Karatsuba and Schönhage–Strassen, the latter having better asymptotic performance but that really kicks in once you have large enough numbers (100,000 digits or so). ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6nhage%E2%80%93Strassen_algorithm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sch%C3%B6nhage%E2%80%93Strassen...</a> )</text></comment> | <story><title>Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer</title><url>http://justin.abrah.ms/computer-science/big-o-notation-explained.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yid</author><text>Unfortunately, there are some misconceptions that are propagated in this article. Kudos on the effort, but some statements are just flat out wrong, such as this statement: &quot;Big-O is all about the approximate worst-case performance&quot;. Big-O has nothing to do with worst-case, but is a <i>bounding</i> function. An O(n) algorithm is also O(n^2), O(2^n), etc. Those are valid bounds on the O(n) algorithm, just not the smallest.</text></comment> |
41,297,096 | 41,297,120 | 1 | 2 | 41,295,957 | train | <story><title>Procreate's anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/19/24223473/procreate-anti-generative-ai-pledge-digital-illustration-creatives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ronsor</author><text>People aren&#x27;t looking at this from a business perspective. Right now a decent subset of artists hate AI, so it makes sense to try and target that market if it&#x27;s large enough.<p>If artists suddenly started loving AI tomorrow, this pledge would be out the window. It&#x27;s just business and marketing - nothing more, nothing less.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpgwaiter</author><text>A non-publicly traded company doesn&#x27;t have to strictly adhere to the bottom line. If they have steady cash flow, and the people running the company have a strong stance on AI, why would they have to change? Their app is fantastic, and if someone wants to add AI slop to their Procreate workflow they can just import&#x2F;export from&#x2F;to an AI slop app.<p>It’s a good rule of thumb that the profit motive will make everything worse, but it’s not like it happens 100% of the time with no exceptions (unless publicly traded)</text></comment> | <story><title>Procreate's anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/19/24223473/procreate-anti-generative-ai-pledge-digital-illustration-creatives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ronsor</author><text>People aren&#x27;t looking at this from a business perspective. Right now a decent subset of artists hate AI, so it makes sense to try and target that market if it&#x27;s large enough.<p>If artists suddenly started loving AI tomorrow, this pledge would be out the window. It&#x27;s just business and marketing - nothing more, nothing less.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jatins</author><text>If Procreate wanted to maximize revenue they&#x27;d have switched to a subscription model way back instead of one time payment. I know it&#x27;s hard to believe but some people are not making all decisions from a business perspective</text></comment> |
28,869,220 | 28,867,831 | 1 | 2 | 28,863,993 | train | <story><title>Gitlab from YC to IPO</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/gitlab-from-yc-to-ipo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I&#x27;ll admit that I was wrong about GitLab. I had the chance to invest in them way back in the day, and passed. My thought at the time was that no open source company had ever been super successful except RedHat, which was more of an outlier than a pattern. And my other thought was that they are competing against GitHub, which was extremely popular and well funded.<p>I honestly didn&#x27;t think they stood a chance.<p>I&#x27;m happy to have been proven wrong. Congrats to the whole team on their successful exit!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klysm</author><text>I think if GitHub simply gave free private repos sooner, GitLab would’ve had a way harder time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gitlab from YC to IPO</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/gitlab-from-yc-to-ipo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I&#x27;ll admit that I was wrong about GitLab. I had the chance to invest in them way back in the day, and passed. My thought at the time was that no open source company had ever been super successful except RedHat, which was more of an outlier than a pattern. And my other thought was that they are competing against GitHub, which was extremely popular and well funded.<p>I honestly didn&#x27;t think they stood a chance.<p>I&#x27;m happy to have been proven wrong. Congrats to the whole team on their successful exit!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>killerstorm</author><text>&gt; My thought at the time was that no open source company had ever been super successful except RedHat<p>Sun bought MySQL for 1 billion USD in 2008, does that not count as successful?<p>Also, MongoDB, Elastic and many many others...</text></comment> |
33,324,070 | 33,322,424 | 1 | 2 | 33,319,367 | train | <story><title>macOS Ventura is now available</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/10/macos-ventura-is-now-available/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>The update is cool but the update process was not.<p><pre><code> -Update available, wanna install?
Sure
-OK don&#x27;t mind me I&#x27;m gonna need a while
OK
-HA HA I LIED I&quot;M READY TO TERMINATE EVERYTHING BYEEEE
WTF
5 reboots with just an Apple icon and a progress bar
The progress bar also moves backwards sometimes
I guess it&#x27;s a metaphor for life, which is how long this seems to be taking
-OK hello I am back but I need 10 minutes of alone time
-Here is some unfamiliar wallpaper but you can log in I guess
-Oh it&#x27;s you again, do you want to share analytics with us
-OK here is your familiar desktop, I am not telling you what has changed
Um preferences
-Oh hai I&#x27;m called Settings now and I reorganized everything
Yikes but OK this is sorta well laid out I guess
-Hello I am Stage Manager, I put a desktop on your desktop so you can work while you work
Sorta neat, can I configure some things differently though
-No
</code></pre>
Funnily enough I had just started reading the <i>Ars Technica</i> review when the upgrade took place so that helped with navigating the changes but it was an oddly jarring transition. I get that Apple doesn&#x27;t like burdening users with too much technical information (as in &#x27;any&#x27;) but given how significantly the Settings app has changed I&#x27;m surprised there was no Release notes or feature tour of any kind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>I am ethically obliged to supplement my original summary<p><pre><code> [hours later]
-Ha ha just kidding of course there&#x27;s a feature tour do you want to see it now
Hmm OK
-Have you ever wished I was a phone? (8 slides)
Really? Let&#x27;s have a talk about Preferences
-They are Settings
OK, let&#x27;s have a talk about Settings
-No</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>macOS Ventura is now available</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/10/macos-ventura-is-now-available/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>The update is cool but the update process was not.<p><pre><code> -Update available, wanna install?
Sure
-OK don&#x27;t mind me I&#x27;m gonna need a while
OK
-HA HA I LIED I&quot;M READY TO TERMINATE EVERYTHING BYEEEE
WTF
5 reboots with just an Apple icon and a progress bar
The progress bar also moves backwards sometimes
I guess it&#x27;s a metaphor for life, which is how long this seems to be taking
-OK hello I am back but I need 10 minutes of alone time
-Here is some unfamiliar wallpaper but you can log in I guess
-Oh it&#x27;s you again, do you want to share analytics with us
-OK here is your familiar desktop, I am not telling you what has changed
Um preferences
-Oh hai I&#x27;m called Settings now and I reorganized everything
Yikes but OK this is sorta well laid out I guess
-Hello I am Stage Manager, I put a desktop on your desktop so you can work while you work
Sorta neat, can I configure some things differently though
-No
</code></pre>
Funnily enough I had just started reading the <i>Ars Technica</i> review when the upgrade took place so that helped with navigating the changes but it was an oddly jarring transition. I get that Apple doesn&#x27;t like burdening users with too much technical information (as in &#x27;any&#x27;) but given how significantly the Settings app has changed I&#x27;m surprised there was no Release notes or feature tour of any kind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yamtaddle</author><text>&gt; Um preferences
-Oh hai I&#x27;m called Settings now and I reorganized everything<p>Oh good. I find it by typing &quot;settings&quot; 100% of the time because I can never remember what it&#x27;s called (&quot;System Preferences&quot;, evidently) but that works less-well than it might since that&#x27;s not the name—it doesn&#x27;t fully match until I&#x27;ve typed the whole word.</text></comment> |
25,244,730 | 25,244,134 | 1 | 3 | 25,242,735 | train | <story><title>Metal Monolith in Utah Gone</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/monolith-utah-disappeared.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skoskie</author><text>And it would be silly to assume a species capable of interplanetary space travel would not use rivets.</text></item><item><author>sp332</author><text>It would be silly to transport a solid chunk of metal through interplanetary space when some sheet metal would do the job.</text></item><item><author>plutonorm</author><text>From some of the images I see it has rivets holding the panels on. Any glimmer of hope that this time it <i>is</i> aliens has been dashed. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;CIBf7YuALr3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;CIBf7YuALr3&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thamer</author><text>The spokesman for the Utah Department of Public Safety specifically mentioned that the monolith was put together &quot;with human-made rivets&quot;.<p>How he knows the difference between human-made rivets and other types of rivets was not explained.</text></comment> | <story><title>Metal Monolith in Utah Gone</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/monolith-utah-disappeared.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skoskie</author><text>And it would be silly to assume a species capable of interplanetary space travel would not use rivets.</text></item><item><author>sp332</author><text>It would be silly to transport a solid chunk of metal through interplanetary space when some sheet metal would do the job.</text></item><item><author>plutonorm</author><text>From some of the images I see it has rivets holding the panels on. Any glimmer of hope that this time it <i>is</i> aliens has been dashed. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;CIBf7YuALr3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;CIBf7YuALr3&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jspash</author><text>Maybe the aliens ARE the rivets! And we&#x27;ve been looking at the wrong thing all along. We&#x27;ve got to think outside the prismatic box.</text></comment> |
32,272,023 | 32,268,745 | 1 | 2 | 32,267,266 | train | <story><title>FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe deposit boxes</title><url>https://reason.com/2022/07/26/what-is-the-fbi-hiding-about-its-raid-on-innocent-americans-safe-deposit-boxes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dogman144</author><text>After reading a long form interview with a FBI Whistleblower out of their Minneapolis counter-terror office (will link if I find it), working in another part of the govt myself in a previous life, and having some exposure to FBI tech recruiting and related programs, I am convinced large parts of the FBI are horribly inept at providing their core competencies in a changing world.<p>They display the dangerous balance of huge scale and access with an inability to hire well outside of key roles (legal for people trending DoJ, special agents in flagpole jobs, etc).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dicknuckle</author><text>I actually have my own video evidence of how inept they are. At a previous job they raided our office and when they told me to turn off the building&#x27;s surveillance cameras, I started recording with my phone. They didn&#x27;t understand what VMware ESXi was and kept trying to take an image of the drives to no avail. They had our backup appliance with a years worth of snapshots but that wasn&#x27;t enough. They actually already had snapshots from the cloud provider before the raid but INSISTED the physical server must be imaged or taken. Finally I made a deal with them to take half of our RAID10 and not take the whole server.</text></comment> | <story><title>FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe deposit boxes</title><url>https://reason.com/2022/07/26/what-is-the-fbi-hiding-about-its-raid-on-innocent-americans-safe-deposit-boxes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dogman144</author><text>After reading a long form interview with a FBI Whistleblower out of their Minneapolis counter-terror office (will link if I find it), working in another part of the govt myself in a previous life, and having some exposure to FBI tech recruiting and related programs, I am convinced large parts of the FBI are horribly inept at providing their core competencies in a changing world.<p>They display the dangerous balance of huge scale and access with an inability to hire well outside of key roles (legal for people trending DoJ, special agents in flagpole jobs, etc).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mox1</author><text>Since you are in govt, you surely know the DoJ lawyers and district attorneys approved every step of this.<p>So it’s not like a random FBI agent or even office decided to do this, it was assuredly brought high up into the DoJ and approved.<p>Let’s not forget that federal or local judges then approved the warrants.<p>So it’s more accurate to say the federal persecution machine did this, not just the FBI.</text></comment> |
27,576,357 | 27,573,587 | 1 | 2 | 27,572,355 | train | <story><title>Bee-friendly urban wildflower meadows prove a hit with German city dwellers</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/20/bee-friendly-urban-wildflower-meadows-prove-a-hit-with-german-city-dwellers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rapnie</author><text>I do some &quot;guerilla seeding&quot; now and then where I live, scattering seeds in abandoned city spots that are waiting for new housing to be build (which can take years). It is so beautiful what flowers emerge, and when I see how both residents and tourists enjoy them, taking pictures and such, I felt it should be common practice to sow such spaces with flowers. Suggested it to our municipality, but after a &quot;Maybe, we&#x27;ll consider it&quot; nothing happened. It is such low effort, low cost though.. it has a good ROI in terms of well-being for bees and humans alike :)</text></item><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>This is something that cities the world over should be doing, both from a bee and a people perspective. Density is a lot more nice if greenery is nearby. Doesn&#x27;t really matter if it&#x27;s a park or an allotment or a library with a wide area. Just plenty of &quot;something&quot; with a large &quot;big something&quot; every so often.<p>In most cities I have experience with, high quality outdoor space is largely reserved for the parts of town populated by people living in detached, one-family dwellings. The more dense parts of town are clustered next to noisy streets or with pollution. Not much greenspace. The cities that have gotten it more right than wrong are usually in western Europe and parts of Asia.<p>&gt; Christian Schmid-Egger, who coordinates Berlin’s wildflower meadows on behalf of the German Wildlife Foundation, said any conservation effort would ultimate require broader changes in agricultural practices: “If we are going to save the bees, we won’t be doing it in cities.”<p>He&#x27;s not wrong, but he&#x27;s also not fully right either. One of the biggest damages we&#x27;ve done to our biome is to pave so much of it, largely to make space for automobiles. Animals and insects need places to thrive all over and setting aside more space among our population for both people <i>and</i> insects makes for a better environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matkoniecz</author><text>Cities in Poland started doing this.<p>One of motivations was that seeding wild flowers gives reason to cut grass less often, allowing to save money and noise. Maybe the same applies in USA and cost cutting could be used as an argument?<p>Other motivations were biodiversity and that it is less ugly (though not everyone is fan of them).<p>From city official website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.krakow.pl&#x2F;aktualnosci&#x2F;237069,1926,komunikat,zdecyduj__gdzie_powstana_nowe_laki_kwietne.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.krakow.pl&#x2F;aktualnosci&#x2F;237069,1926,komunikat,zdec...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zzm.krakow.pl&#x2F;dzialania-antysmogowe&#x2F;393-sianie-lak-kwietnych.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zzm.krakow.pl&#x2F;dzialania-antysmogowe&#x2F;393-sianie-lak-k...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.krakow.pl&#x2F;aktualnosci&#x2F;247208,29,komunikat,nowe_laki_kwietne_w_twoich_rekach.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.krakow.pl&#x2F;aktualnosci&#x2F;247208,29,komunikat,nowe_l...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Bee-friendly urban wildflower meadows prove a hit with German city dwellers</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/20/bee-friendly-urban-wildflower-meadows-prove-a-hit-with-german-city-dwellers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rapnie</author><text>I do some &quot;guerilla seeding&quot; now and then where I live, scattering seeds in abandoned city spots that are waiting for new housing to be build (which can take years). It is so beautiful what flowers emerge, and when I see how both residents and tourists enjoy them, taking pictures and such, I felt it should be common practice to sow such spaces with flowers. Suggested it to our municipality, but after a &quot;Maybe, we&#x27;ll consider it&quot; nothing happened. It is such low effort, low cost though.. it has a good ROI in terms of well-being for bees and humans alike :)</text></item><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>This is something that cities the world over should be doing, both from a bee and a people perspective. Density is a lot more nice if greenery is nearby. Doesn&#x27;t really matter if it&#x27;s a park or an allotment or a library with a wide area. Just plenty of &quot;something&quot; with a large &quot;big something&quot; every so often.<p>In most cities I have experience with, high quality outdoor space is largely reserved for the parts of town populated by people living in detached, one-family dwellings. The more dense parts of town are clustered next to noisy streets or with pollution. Not much greenspace. The cities that have gotten it more right than wrong are usually in western Europe and parts of Asia.<p>&gt; Christian Schmid-Egger, who coordinates Berlin’s wildflower meadows on behalf of the German Wildlife Foundation, said any conservation effort would ultimate require broader changes in agricultural practices: “If we are going to save the bees, we won’t be doing it in cities.”<p>He&#x27;s not wrong, but he&#x27;s also not fully right either. One of the biggest damages we&#x27;ve done to our biome is to pave so much of it, largely to make space for automobiles. Animals and insects need places to thrive all over and setting aside more space among our population for both people <i>and</i> insects makes for a better environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sharlin</author><text>In my city, a grassroots organization that started as a bunch of &quot;guerrilla gardeners&quot; now has their urban meadow projects sanctioned by the city, more meadows are being created, and they do paid consulting for the city as well on the topic of biodiversity and various restoration projects. Very nice.</text></comment> |
12,969,062 | 12,968,969 | 1 | 2 | 12,967,921 | train | <story><title>Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/google-signs-on-to-the-net-foundation-and-samsung-brings-net-support-to-tizen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geodel</author><text>Google have not made their own languages Dart&#x2F;Go official to Android. Why would they make languages other than Java a priority now?</text></item><item><author>mentat2737</author><text>Nice.<p>Now please make C# a first-class citizen in Android and start to migrate from Java to C#.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>owaislone</author><text>.NET would have had a real chance at being the android application platform if it was philosophically in the state that it is today (open sourced toolchain&#x2F;compilers, open-source friendly MS, Mono&#x2F;Xamarin in good shape).<p>Moving android away from Java is going to be a big undertaking and I doubt Google will undertake such a huge project only to move away from Oracle and closer to MS.<p>If they ever try to replace Java, it&#x27;ll be Dart or another language they acquire in future. Dart has good chances.<p>They already have an early stage framework to make Android (and iOS) apps with Dart[0]. It&#x27;s also the main GUI toolkit for their Fuchsia OS [1].<p>0 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flutter.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flutter.io&#x2F;</a><p>1 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fuchsia-mirror&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fuchsia-mirror&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/google-signs-on-to-the-net-foundation-and-samsung-brings-net-support-to-tizen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geodel</author><text>Google have not made their own languages Dart&#x2F;Go official to Android. Why would they make languages other than Java a priority now?</text></item><item><author>mentat2737</author><text>Nice.<p>Now please make C# a first-class citizen in Android and start to migrate from Java to C#.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patates</author><text>Dart doesn&#x27;t have the adoption yet and has a different plan when it comes to mobile ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;flutter&#x2F;flutter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;flutter&#x2F;flutter</a> ).<p>I love Go, but it&#x27;s not really a suitable language to do UI, or anything that deals with data models.<p>C#, however, is a perfect replacement for Java, most of the times. I would say &quot;it&#x27;s simply superior in every imaginable metric other than cross-platform implementations of the compiler&#x2F;VM&quot; but that&#x27;s just my opinion.</text></comment> |
14,340,076 | 14,337,595 | 1 | 2 | 14,336,803 | train | <story><title>WannaCry – New Variants Detected</title><url>https://blog.comae.io/wannacry-new-variants-detected-b8908fefea7e</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yardstick</author><text>Anyone know someone at the Tor Project? Based on a breakdown I read, it downloads the Tor client from
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dist.torproject.org&#x2F;torbrowser&#x2F;6.5.1&#x2F;tor-win32-0.2.9.10.zip" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dist.torproject.org&#x2F;torbrowser&#x2F;6.5.1&#x2F;tor-win32-0.2.9...</a><p>It would be simple to rename this link (or perform a referer check or something else to stop automated downloads), at least temporarily.<p>Yes, the malware authors will release an update with the different URL (or another hosting site entirely, or embedded), but at least it would provide time for vulnerable users to install patches. Especially now that Microsoft has released a patch for XP.<p>(I&#x27;m basing this URL info on the breakdown found at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleepingcomputer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;security&#x2F;wannacry-wana-decryptor-wanacrypt0r-technical-nose-dive&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleepingcomputer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;security&#x2F;wannacry-wana...</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>WannaCry – New Variants Detected</title><url>https://blog.comae.io/wannacry-new-variants-detected-b8908fefea7e</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rhubarbcustard</author><text>What&#x27;s special about WannaCry that has made this such a widespread thing? I presume there&#x27;s has been plenty of malware for a while that can propagate itself around a network of unpatched old Windows machines and people have been trying to get users to clicks on emails to infect themselves for years.<p>So why now? What&#x27;s so special now?</text></comment> |
31,819,665 | 31,818,358 | 1 | 2 | 31,810,104 | train | <story><title>We are removing the option to create new subscriptions</title><url>https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/6/20/were-removing-the-option-to-create-new-subscriptions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>contravariant</author><text>Maybe but doesn&#x27;t all of that apply equally to just about any payment method other than sending them cash anonymously?</text></item><item><author>capableweb</author><text>Presumably there are details linking together payments coming from Paypal and the account number. And obviously there is a link between account number and forwarded port. So following with that, you&#x27;d be able to make the connection between the account number and Paypal account, which is definitely not private nor even pretending to protect your privacy.</text></item><item><author>contravariant</author><text>What&#x27;s the exact reasoning behind that? How does paying via paypall impact the privacy of a forwarded port?<p>Is this something to do with state-level actors?</text></item><item><author>mig39</author><text>I&#x27;ve always loved that Mullvad wouldn&#x27;t let you accidentally compromise your own security.<p>For example, the port-forwarding feature won&#x27;t work if you have a recurring subscription.<p>This just extends that kind of thinking to the service in general.<p>Been a Mullvad customer for a long time now, and it&#x27;s always been awesome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>I think the idea is that money reaches the company, the company then increments how much time you have left on the account, then deletes records linking payment to the account<p>Like you show up and give me $5, tell me it’s for account XYZ, I go into my admin console and increment the remaining usage time, but don’t write that you were the one giving me $5<p>There’s a window of time where the link exists of course! But you can get rid of it.<p>(I Hope that they are not storing things like an account start date or too many payment records… it could easily be deanonymized through time stamp correlation and the banks&#x2F;stripe&#x2F;PayPal have the data)</text></comment> | <story><title>We are removing the option to create new subscriptions</title><url>https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/6/20/were-removing-the-option-to-create-new-subscriptions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>contravariant</author><text>Maybe but doesn&#x27;t all of that apply equally to just about any payment method other than sending them cash anonymously?</text></item><item><author>capableweb</author><text>Presumably there are details linking together payments coming from Paypal and the account number. And obviously there is a link between account number and forwarded port. So following with that, you&#x27;d be able to make the connection between the account number and Paypal account, which is definitely not private nor even pretending to protect your privacy.</text></item><item><author>contravariant</author><text>What&#x27;s the exact reasoning behind that? How does paying via paypall impact the privacy of a forwarded port?<p>Is this something to do with state-level actors?</text></item><item><author>mig39</author><text>I&#x27;ve always loved that Mullvad wouldn&#x27;t let you accidentally compromise your own security.<p>For example, the port-forwarding feature won&#x27;t work if you have a recurring subscription.<p>This just extends that kind of thinking to the service in general.<p>Been a Mullvad customer for a long time now, and it&#x27;s always been awesome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigiain</author><text>For a single payment, they can throw away all the metadata once the funds hit their bank account.<p>They _can&#x27;t_ do that with recurring subscriptions, since they need something that links to your CC or PayPal details to re-bill it next month&#x2F;year. They&#x27;ve chosen to not do that any more, possibly as performative privacy, also possibly as having real privacy concerns for their clients, and also also possibly so they can tell law enforcement and courts to stop bothering them when needed. (realistically, it&#x27;ll be some combination of those three things, and possibly others I&#x27;ve not thought of, that triggered them into this)</text></comment> |
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